46-Inch Display Turned into a Giant Microscope

[Guest]

Researchers at Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) and Multitouch Ltd. have built giant touchscreen microscope that can be used to navigate the display of viewed samples in a similar way as you would use Google Maps.

46-Inch Display Turned into a Giant Microscope : Read more

 

[Guest]

ok pretty useless as far as i am concerned. Tech already exists for large scale microscopic displays. No need for a touch screen control. Also tom's, can you be more misleading with your article titles?

Biology BS+Biomedical Masters(in progress)

 

[joytech22]

200GB a scan eh? I could fit what like.. 20 scans in my main desktop? lol..
My HTPC could only fit one, my laptop could hold 2..

Considering how hard drives write at about 90MB/s if you're lucky, it'd take ages just to save one of those behemoths.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

worthless news for toms

 

[eddieroolz]

200GB images! A whole 2 of them can fit on my laptop

 

[illuminatuz]

omg wtf!! im sure quad sli and quad xfire of nvidia gtx 590 and 6990 will also never be able to make that one atleast at 1 fps!! these scientists are crazy man!!

 

[ProDigit10]

They forgot to include the 3D feat on this one!
Imagine, seeing an amoeba the size of a small dog!

 

[COLGeek]

Storage space is cheap and plentiful.

What is more impressive is how this tech could be used to expand our understanding down to molecular level. Beats the heck out of a traditional microscope in some applications.

 

[pc000007]

it's unlikly that anyone would want a 200GB image. If it was a RAW 24bit it would be 260,000 x 260,000
A 200MB JPG of the area of interest would be much more likely I think.