Ipod your insides

Evidently, this is super. duper. old. news.
But I just saw a clip about this on the news last night.

They showed a doctor holding a photo-iPod displaying a CAT scan or X-ray, and then using the scroll wheel to rotate the image through three dimensions.

Nice use of technology.
MUCH better than using an old light-box.

I'm guessing that the ipod isn't doing any 3D rendering. Or even using any custom software, even. I figure all they need to do in order to do the rotation is to have an image sequence pre-rendered, and then download them to the ipod in sequence order.

So really, all the ipod is doing is showing a sequence of images.

Whether using something with that small of a screen is useful for diagnostic imaging is a different question.

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I figure all they need to do in order to do the rotation is to have an image sequence pre-rendered, and then download them to the ipod in sequence order.

Yeah, they did a small bit on The Screen Savers on how to do a video like that. Seems to me this whole idea was created out of the annoyance that the iPod Photo doesn't play videos, which makes no sense to me at all, considering its price.