Re:virtual surgery (Score 1)

That's missing the point. The educational aspect IS the cool function. Surgeons currently have to learn as they operate, using cadavers as their only close approximation to the real thing, and moving on to real surgeries to hone their skills. However, dead tissue behaves quite differently. A great deal of surgery skill comes from familiarity with tactile sensation...how much pressure to apply when, how fast to go, etc. If they are able to simulate the tactile sensations of performing surgery on living tissue effectively with this device, it will be a huge advance in surgical training.

Wouldn't you rather have a surgeon with his/her tactile sensation and hand/eye coordination skills better honed when he went to operate on you?