A cool new app that launched this week allows us to look into the intricate workings of a genius brain.
The app, exclusive to iPads, gives the user access to detailed images of Albert Einstein’s brain.
While it won’t allow you to harness the scientist’s incredible intellect, or win the next round of Angry Birds, (we feel this should be a cautionary note on the product), it will make the detail of his brain more accessible to researchers than ever before.
Creators of the app are hoping that teachers, students and any budding physicists will be able to use the app and gain inspiration from the brain of the genius who developed the theory of relativity.
Steve Landers, consultant for the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago and designer of the app, said he “can’t wait” to find out what people will discover.
“I’d like to think Einstein would have been excited,” he added.
Einstein would have indeed been blown away by this technology experience…
iPad app could inspire many new Einsteins…
The app was created after the museum scanned and digitised 350 slides made from slices of Einstein’s brain following his death in 1955.
The museum board said he didn’t feel the treatment of the brain was disrespectful to its owner.
‘He understood the value to research and science to study his brain, and we think we’ve addressed that in a respectful manner,’ he said.
We’ll certainly be downloading this one…
