The future of medical virtual reality
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We take a look at virtual reality as it helps surgeons in Brazil work with colleagues in Britain on an operation to separate twins joined at the head.
As global temperatures rise how do we keep data centres cool in a power efficient end environmentally friendly way.
Teaching technology in Africa - the founder of a school in Lesotho tells us how it got started. And should records ditch vinyl to go green?
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello, I'm Chris Valence and welcome to TechTent. |
| 0:34.2 | It's not really a tent, but it is all about tech. |
| 0:37.3 | This week, virtual reality technology |
| 0:39.3 | helps surgeons in Brazil and Britain collaborate to separate two twin boys joined at the head. But what's the future of this virtual reality system in medicine? I hear from one of the team who helped build the technology. And it's getting hotter. So how do we keep the computers that power everything from cute kitten videos to online banking cool |
| 0:59.4 | and do it in a green, energy-efficient way? |
| 1:02.9 | With me on this journey into tech is our reporter Shona McCallan, |
| 1:06.2 | who this week has been looking at vinyl and how to make it greener. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, especially since the pandemic, |
| 1:12.6 | the demand for good old-fashioned records has gone through the roof. |
| 1:17.0 | So is there a green answer to the backlog? |
| 1:19.3 | Well, I have been to the Netherlands to find out. |
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