An MRI for wine

If this catches on, no one may ever have to suffer through the heartbreak of a spoiled bottle of wine again.

Then again, it is a $50,000 device, so it won't be in your kitchen any time soon. And we have our doubts about it completely replacing the human palette when it comes to judging these matters. If a customer sends back a bottle of wine that's been scanned by this thing and pronounced goo, what, is the restaurant going to argue with him? He may be full of hot air, but if he doesn't like the wine, he doesn't like the wine.

Still, for high-end restaurants, auction houses and places like that, it makes a lot of sense, if it works as advertised.