In a series of mind-bending demos, inventor Mary Lou Jepsen shows how we can use red light to see and stimulate what's inside our bodies and brains. Taking us to the edge of optical physics, Jepsen unveils new technologies that utilize light and sound to track tumors, measure neural activity and could eventually replace the MRI machine with a cheaper, more efficient and wearable system.
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I’m going to watch this more than once.
What a topic! Great explanation.
Wow some of the things I was always thinking a decade ago is what I read & see on the internet nowadays. I am not a pro but sometimes I had thought about the same thing in the same method. I am glad the ones that doubted me are sharing or reading the se stuff. I pity their dim brain & fell sorry for them at the same time.
Don’t let great ideas die, get into research and let them grow.
+JellyfishJelly thanks for the nudge…
*HOLO* … Cristine should see this
vysvetli :O
HEY WHERE THE HOLO ARMY AT
How do people figure these things out?
+TheHeavenman88 university* and research
One failure at a time
More than two decades of research…. by hundreds of other people. Her sales pitch makes it seem like these techniques were discovered by her and her company alone. In reality they discovered none of it. What they are doing is trying to take several technologies other people have invented and refined over time, integrate them, and package them into a product.
TeaSipper I guess that’s mostly true but even if so somebody has to put it all together. That’s how our society and systems work.
Sure, I agree it’s valuable for people to put technologies together into actual products. Realize though that what people have working labs today are much more impressive than the simple demos she showed in her talk. Whe she says: ” this is the first time….” it’s only accurate in the very literal sense that this is literally the first time someone has packaged a demo in a hand held thing and showed it in front of an audience. Hopefully her actual technology will be more impressive.
So many firsts for the public! Amazing. I wonder when and if we will see this technology in the field.
It’ll probably take a lot longer than really necessary due to red tape. But I sure hope not.
Bodies are squishy
“warm and fuzzy” as quantum physicist would say )
This is absolutely amazing! Wow! I am floored!
This is awesome! How long will it take till it becomes a standard medical procedure?
As a medical student, I am inspired by Mary Lou Jepsen and hope that this technology benefits millions in future. 🙂
But like every other innovation, we are gonna heavily monetize it or just not use it.
Outstanding, here’s hoping this becomes standard procedure.
not sure if I understand it correctly, but did she say she could “read and write” neural activity? I dont think she ever explains how this system or setup can stimulate (“write”) neural activity, or did I miss something?
No, there was no explanation, just some hand-waving assumption that if you can detect something you can stimulate it. Given that activity is (supposedly) being detected by the presence or abscence of blood and the subtle change of colour of oxygenation I don’t see how reversing any part of this process would stimulate neural activity. Neural firing is essentially a chemical/electrical process which is why we currently use chemicals or electricity to influence it. The system as described could probably focus some blood-coloured light on a neuron but there’s no evidence presented here that neural activity could be affected.
there are some footnotes in the presentation that you can refer to on reading and writing neural activity with just light!
Mary Lou You are a GENIUS!!!!!!!
Where can we read your articles on this topic?
Gonna share this to everyone I know
one of the greatest technology I have ever seen… this is just awesome … *Nobel worthy*
Agreed
Now let’s hope this technology will not be suppressed. This will an amazing replacement for mammography.
yes! agreed – we have even thought about making a bra that does detection.
awesome. Then we can use light/laser to treat tumors, infections etc. As an ND, I would refer women to an ultrasound which is more dx- bypassing the mammo. Let’s hope your technology comes to fruition quickly!
This is what “Bones” did on Star Trek. Damn it Jim, I’m a doctor, not a TED speaker!
It scares me to think how much billion dollar companies are going to fight you. cheaper better and faster threatens their wallets.
Idk what those big words mean…but I know that this could change something…