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iPad x-rayed, everything looks fine


An orthopedic doctor in Japan wanted to see what made the iPad tick, so he threw it under an x-ray machine and posted the images to his blog. We guess the good doctor (whose name is Dr. Ambition, according to his blog) wasn't happy with all the teardown photos and videos of the iPad. Or maybe he just wanted to see what happens when you pump it full of radiation. Appropriately enough, the iPad's x-ray was processed with OsiriX DICOM medical imaging software for Mac.

The good news for the iPad is that nothing was broken and, as long as the stool samples come back negative, it seems it can look forward to a long life.

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Tom

this is weird cause they don't come out here until next month...

April 26 2010 at 9:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Noah

Everything comes down to poo...

April 26 2010 at 6:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
skylark3

Mr. Ipad I have good news and bad news.

The bad news is your camera is broken, the good news is we can remove it with a photoshop app.

April 26 2010 at 1:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Frantz

While it might make sense to have a camera in a Touch, it does add a significant expense to the device. So I would expect the low end Touch to always be camera free. I'm also expecting Apple to attempt to remain very agressive in Touch pricing.

So what does this have to do with iPad. Well first it is model #1 and as such follows Apples path, seen in other products, of getting the core features right first. Except for base RAM Apple did really good with that approach on iPad. The second thing is what sort of camera are you talking about here, rear or front facing?
It is like this one would look like an idiot using a rear facing cell phone quality camera on the iPad. A front facing camera would make some sense for up your nose conferencing but then Apple would need to have software to support that shipping. It looks like that will be a reality in iPhone OS4.0 so maybe we will see an iPad with a conferencing camera sometime in September. The key here is that Apple will not sell hardware without software support.

As a side note; if Apple could get away from cell phone quality sensors and optics a rear facing camera has some potential. Give the optics shift and tilt and you end up with a modern redition of a large format camera. The problem of course is the optics hanging out the back of the iPad. Apple would need at least 10 megapixel sensors to make this worthwhile. One thing is certain sensor quality is changing rapidly so maybe this will happen soon in an iPad profile device.

April 26 2010 at 12:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dreamwriter

Keep in mind, the large space in the upper right corner (the x-ray is face down) is reserved for the 3G radio/GPS board, so the only real available open space is in the bottom left.

April 26 2010 at 12:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tuaw

No surprise that the x-rays broke nothing. An iPad is going to have to survive all those airport scanners, which typically are higher power than medical devices.

April 26 2010 at 12:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mail

Gizmodo needs one of these

April 26 2010 at 11:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Todd

Maybe they could buy one on the black market.

April 26 2010 at 2:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ep2002

I believe that's the ambient light sensor that has been mentioned in the past.

April 26 2010 at 11:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tigres

Looks like a camera potentially there. Maybe in the screen housing itself?

I see a dot on my wife's that certainly looks like somethings amiss.

April 26 2010 at 10:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric

New iPad wallpaper! Yay!

April 26 2010 at 10:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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