Quote:Sense that scene was totally illogical given the tech shown previously, seemed to require Kabuto to use machines to check on a patient (instead of what he was trained for... you know medical jutsu), and seemed tacked on to prove just how Fubar that guy was, instead of bothering to come up with jutsu based medical techno babble to explain how Fubar he was... Apparently only able to move by using his body as a chakra puppet was considered to hard for fans to understand as he is terminal and Fubar... which they did explain in the episode I think.
...including what looked like monitor banks displaying medical information. I recall Kabuto was seen hitting keys and such on a console...
Anyway the modern Earth we are on tech and computers and the rest of that scene made me disavow it happened. Unless Manda got Orochimaru access to Rosenqueen (Nippon Ichi Netherworld style) or Orochimaru can dimension hop (and it wasn't important enough to tell the readers/watchers) I can't figure out why such a device would even exist in that world. I have to force myself to forget that scene again. If you can explain why the device (1990's level computer tech) could/would exist I'll grant it... otherwise that was a visual brain fart of the series and to be totally ignored.
Power lines are a major feature of Konaha's greatness. Electric lights are exotic for the series. And suddenly Kabuto is using MRIs and a central database system with diagnostic capabilities? We are talking major technologic spontaneous generation here... Kabuto would only need such a thing , if it could exist in the first place, is if he suddenly couldn't use chakra any more. He is literally a character that can do all that the machine apparently can do with jutsu. That or if that disease was contagious.
As for the random selection machine? I failed to see that as a computer... a genjutsu cast by a guy we can't see on screen. Random number generators (like dice or pulling names out of a hat) have been around for ever. For all we know its literally two gys spinning convayer belts and adjusting them straight when they stop. If they had anything like that in the stadium to display names of combatants I'd consider it more likely.
For example the Greeks made street theatre machines that used pulleys, levers and not even clockwork level tech to make an automated show that showed a legend for 15-20 minutes a run. With sound effects.