谷歌推出人体浏览器 人们可观察自己身体

屈联西

2010年12月20日 环球时报
　　Google's latest innovation, the body browser, is designed to help people navigate their bodies the way Google Maps and Google Earth allow people to find their ways. The Body Browser lets people zoom through skin, muscle and bone, just as Google Maps lets them zoom in from continents to city streets。
　　The Body Browser is a sliding scroll bar that allows people to peel away layers of the body, starting at the skin and moving down through the muscles and bone or organs to the cardiovascular and nervous systems。
　　In addition, there's the search function which allows you to locate any part of the body by just typing in the name. The application runs right in WebGL supported browser. Only Chrome 9 Beta and Firefox 4 beta are available for download。
　　Body Browser hasn't landed in Google Labs just yet, and this Google project is not supposed to raise any of the privacy debates that have plagued some of Google's other mapping projects。
　　谷歌的最新发明——“人体浏览器”——旨在帮助人们探索自己的身体，其原理如同“谷歌地图”、“谷歌地球”帮助人们找到路线。“人体浏览器”可让人们浏览皮肤、肌肉、骨骼，就像“谷歌地图”可让人们从各大洲到城市街道肆意纵横一般。
　　“人体浏览器”实际上是一个滚动条，(通过拖动滚动条，)人们可层层深入人体，从皮肤到肌肉，再到骨骼(器官)，最后到心血管和神经系统。
　　此外，“人体浏览器”还有搜索功能，人们只需输入名称便可定向搜索身体的任何一个部位。然而该应用程序需用使用带有谷歌WebGL图像技术标准的浏览器。目前只有火狐测试版浏览器和谷歌Chrome测试版可供下载“人体浏览器”。
　　目前，“人体浏览器”仍是谷歌实验室的一个测试项目。人们预计该项目不会像谷歌其他制图项目一样招致太多隐私相关的非议。