IF you wanted to explore the future, how would you start? You'd have to find a way of test-driving the cutting-edge technologies that will change our lives. Perhaps you could put them in a museum for every one to try.
Maybe it would be fun to have a machine that captures a three-dimensional model of your head which you could then play around with on a computer nearby? After scanning your head, you might enjoy commanding a tiny submarine or learning the intricacies of getting a good performance out of a Mars rover. And what about designing your own roller coaster, and then taking a virtual white-knuckle ride?
Imagine taking another kind of ride: a virtual tour inside the body using a computer model created by slicing up and digitising a corpse. And what about real bodies? Because they're ...
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