Scans From The Tech

As part of my trip to San Jose, CA, I had the pleasure of visiting The Tech Museum there. Arriving at the museum, you are given a "TechTag" which you can then use at the various exhibits inside. Some of the exhibits provide some sort of output or digital souvenir about your experience with the exhibit. The TechTag is just a piece of paper with a scannable code on it which can be used at the museum's website where you can view your digital souvenirs.

Two of the exhibits that had especially interesting souvenirs were the 3D Head Scan and a Thermal Image Scan. The 3D Head Scan exhibit scans your head with a laser and gives you a pretty good, well at least interesting, 3D rendering of your own head, kind of like Max Headroom. The Thermal Scan takes a thermal image of your body.

After visiting the museum I got online with my TechTag, looked up my digital souvenirs and created a web photo album from some of the images from these exhibits. The album contains several images for the 3D Head Scan one one image from the thermal scan. I got the 3D Head Scan images from screen shots of the 3D rendering client you have to use to see your 3D head. The 3D client software allows you to pan, scan, turn and zoom your 3D head around to view it. Doing this was actually pretty freaky, given the imperfections in the scan. Take a look at the some of the screen shots to see for yourself.