makingvisible:

trendd:

This is a very cool application of a MS Kinect hack.

“Doctors at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto, Canada have taken interactive gaming to the next level when they hooked up a Kinect console to their medical imaging computer. Now when in the operating room, doctors can have direct access to MRI scans, without having to disinfect, leave the operating room, consult the scans, and then scrub back in. This hack allows them to virtually manipulate the scans and retrieve the necessary information by pulling it up on screen with a wave of their hand.”

(via Gaming That’s Good For Your Health - PSFK)

Nicely illustrated by a scene from the Ariel episode of Firefly. The future is here again. Shiny.