I did not see this one coming. BREAKING NEWS folks!
Midjourney, yes the AI image company, just launched a real medical device that feels like it's straight out of Star Trek.
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Theyāve unveiled the Midjourney Scanner, the first working prototype of Full Body Ultrasonic Computational Tomography. It uses a ring of thousands of tiny transducers to fire ultra-precise sound waves through the body. The returning echoes are captured at a staggering 17 gigabytes per second, and the 806 terabytes of gathered data are then reconstructed by a 2 petaflop compute system into a highly detailed 3D map of your entire internal anatomy ā organs, tissues, blood vessels, etc., in 60 seconds.
The resolution is extreme: each sensor can resolves motion smaller than the width of an atom, detecting internal tissue details down to half a millimeter. And unlike MRI or CT scans, it uses no radiation, just sound. Think of it like getting an ultrasound from the 22nd century.
The ambition is breathtaking. Midjourney wants to build a fleet of 50,000 of these scanners, capable of delivering a billion full body scans per month. That's enough to make comprehensive full body imaging available to every person on Earth.
Theyāre not hiding it in cold, clinical hospitals either. The vision includes placing these scanners inside what look like Midjourney spas, turning whatās usually an annoying medical procedure into something genuinely pleasant.
This is Star Trek level healthcare infrastructure: fast, safe, non-invasive full body imaging at planetary scale. If they pull it off, it could fundamentally shift medicine from reactive treatment to proactive, early detection on a global level.
Progress (and Midjourney going full medical) marches on. š©ŗš