Pete_LeGrant September 24, 2009 Tech, Xbox 360 70 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

Think your video game system is just for fun and games? Wrong. Check it out Time.com’s article on ways doctors are putting a network of XBOX 360s to work:

A computer scientist at the University of Warwick in England has devised a way to use an Xbox 360 to detect heart defects and help prevent heart attacks. The new tool has the potential to revolutionize the medical industry because it is both faster and cheaper than the computer systems that are currently used by scientists to perform complex heart research.

Check out how blazin’ fast it is:

To create a heart model now, researchers must use supercomputers or a network of PCs to crunch millions of mathematical equations relating to the proteins, cells and tissues of the heart, a time-consuming and costly process. Scarle’s Xbox system can deliver the same results at a rate five times faster and 10 times more cheap, according to the study.

Tell me that’s not awesome. I dare you. I don’t think this is the end of this trend. I’m sure that more researchers will find ways to put video game consoles to work in clusters. Check out what’s already gone on: 12 ways video games actually benefit real life

Check out the article: How Xbox Can Help Fight Heart Disease