WHEW, where can I get one of these goggles, heh.
Here’s an excerpt from the Agence France-Presse story:
YOKOHAMA, Japan–Japanese scientists who want to be in tune with their work can now stand in the eye of a typhoon or observe close-up walls of whirling wind — with the help of some goggles.
In what is billed as unique technology, Japanese researchers have created three-dimensional images from stocks of data culled over the years and fed into computers.
“Thanks to this system, we can discover so much more new data — it’s like discovering diamonds!” said Tetsuya Sato, a professor who heads the project at the state-run Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
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