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Facebook Exec's New Startup 'Open Water' Targets Wearable Brain Imaging (xconomy.com)
gthuang88 writes: Display-tech guru Mary Lou Jepsen is leaving her post at Facebook/Oculus to work on a new startup called Open Water. Jepsen, a veteran of Google X and the MIT Media Lab, says the company will develop wearable MRI devices that could help doctors do early detection of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Inspired in part by musician Peter Gabriel, Open Water also hopes to use advances in neural imaging and brain-machine interfaces to create a system for reading and communicating human thoughts electronically. She believes there's huge potential in the manufacturing plants in Asia that are primarily used to make OLEDs and LCDs. "My big bet is we can use that manufacturing infrastructure to create the functionality of a $5 million MRI machine in a consumer electronics price-point wearable. And the implications of that are so big." At that price-point, every doctor's office in the world could afford such a device and use it to detect early stages of neurodegenerative disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, internal bleeding, blood clots, and more.
How?
The magnet field emitted by an MRI is so powerful it can cause metal objects to fly through the air and damage the machine. By what magic of DSP voodoo do they propose to shrink a machine which makes a Microwave Oven look like an LED flashlight by comparison down to a "wearable" size/price?
Does it use the earth's magnetic field with an extremely long "shutter time"? If so: how do they address the target moving while the continuous "exposure" is recording? Where is this data being cached and how is it getting off the wearable and into the cloud?
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MRIs since they're so profitable.
OLPC - check
Pixel Qi - check
Google X "Lego Display Wall" - check
She seems to have made a career out associating with big names, making big promises, and then not delivering much. And wishing a low cost MRI to happen isn't the same as actually making it happen. That takes working engineers, not executives who used to be engineers once.
Perhaps we will need to create âoeswimming lessonsâ to teach us how to be comfortable being open, honest and exposedâ"that we can be ready to float and navigate in these waters of visible thought.
I like Peter Gabriel, probably a lot more than the next guy likes PG. But he is being hopelessly naive. No human will ever be comfortable with that level of exposure. Its the destruction of self, the loss of the last bastion of privacy and thus dignity. It might be OK for short periods of time, like a sort of digital LSD trip. But that's about it.
If this tech ever gets that sophisticated we are going to need lessons in the opposite - how to jam it so that our thoughts can not be surreptitiously (or forcibly) taken from us.
Some retro-techno that is right on the nose:
X-Dream - X-Ray Eyes (album: We Interface)
This is a promise, this is a threat
X-ray eyes
This is a promise, this is a threat
Of a device, capturing your mind
Brain scanning machines, discerning thoughts
Original blueprints, replicating imprints
X-ray eyes are electric
X-ray eyes, x-ray analyze
X-ray eyes, x-ray strike the target
X-ray eyes, x-ray eyes read your mind
And just for good measure:
X-Dream: We Interface
Monitoring devices
Know where you go
Mass media
Total control
Digital delight
Desire in megabyte
Data overflow
Virtual suicide
This information
Is dinformation
Truth is hidden
Knowledge forbidden
Structures, powers
to delegate
To speak is to lie
To lie is to collaborate
Information streams
Simulating dreams
Interactive mind control
Systematic overflow
This has the potential to be an awesome lie detector. Not as clumsy and ineffective as a polygraph. I can see the beginning of a wonderful friendship between FB and the DoD.
The PTB rely on HUMAN FLESH in the FOOD SUPPLY to maintain their human appearance
Human flesh exists in a lot of foods today. Sometimes it makes the news. These are PTB slip ups, and/or conditioning this reality.
They rely on the consumption of human flesh to retain their human appearance. They all have the same scent. They exist from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. Some are bums, some are middle/upper class, some are those dancing for you on TV, in a web of deceit to keep your mind and body occupied.
If you want to try and let one of them know that you know what they are, you might say to them:
"This hamburger is really quite human"
(inhale deeply) "This planet is filled with creatures which all smell the same"
"I hope you enjoyed your flesh burger"
"How long did your last regeneration period last?"
"What office do you work for?"
and use it to detect early stages of neurodegenerative disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, internal bleeding, blood clots, and more.
We already know the detrimental effects of smoking, doing drugs, being obese, not eating a somewhat healthy diet, lack of exercise and so on yet people continue to do all of the above and more.
If the trillions we've already spent stating the obvious haven't worked, restating them in a different form isn't going to matter.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can now read the mind of your victims ?
Well, I would argue you can already do for most of your victims simply by datamining the stuff they have supplied you for free. Nicely attached to a police-identifiable mobile phone number.
So that you and your 1% friends can always crack down on each of your victims, should the need arise.
Folks, what we need is Freedom Computers, not Electronic Shackles.
Here is a small contribution towards this:
https://github.com/YuriSuchoi/RandomNumberSource/wiki
My prognosis as a medical device engineer is that they'll manage maybe one of those four ...
Oh, and btw, MRIs are cheap, fast and plentiful today. I've experienced a time when that wasn't the case, when there were two devices in the whole country and a month-long waiting list based on how interesting your case is. And the examination took over three hours, compared to just under 30 minutes today. If anyone claims that MRIs are too expensive today, my guess is that they're in country with a backwater health insurance system. Which could be fixed more easily than cramming a medical-grade MRI into a gadget form factor.
Meh, I'll wait until it's injectable into eyeballs.
I knew that name sounded familiar. Well, Pixel Qi produced some actual products. It turns out the price of LCDs fell, and the consumer has higher expectations for display quality. The military liked the tech, but that wasn't enough.
Sounds like the first step toward developing Vulcan mind meld technology. All one needs is a magnet capable of synchronizing the neural impulses between the parties..
No doubt many can't wait to mind meld with Donald Trump in an effort to lower their collective IQ even further than might be possible using conventional technology.
The magnetic field of an MRI determines the wavelength of the absorbed/re-emitted signal. MRIs use high-strength magnetic fields to get the higher precision that comes from using shorter wavelengths.
You can make an MRI that sits on your desktop. See "The Amateur Scientist" by C.L. Strong for an example.
The big issue with MRIs is uniformity of the magnetic field. Since the signal is dependent on the field strength, any variation in this strength results in signals of a different frequency. MRIs are traditionally big in order to have uniform magnetic fields in the cylindrical chamber.
We've actually come a long way in processing algorithms as well. For example, this project is attempting to make a desktop MRI using structured-light algorithms to compensate for the field variation.
Perhaps Mary Lou Jepson did due dilligence before embarking on this venture.
So, miniaturization...this is where I think the core concept of the (fallacious) 'Moore's Law' actually can be seen in effect.
What I mean is, though it is not any kind of formula or 'law', we can see a very idetifiable trend towards making our tech smaller. It's so clear and consistent it's about as close to 'certain' as these kinds of things can be.
The software is there...most of our limitations are hardware...usually battery weight, as boring as it sounds.
I think we will see fMRI applications for consumer products fairly soon, and in general BCI stuff will get smaller.
Have a look at the work of Manue Rodrigeuz Delgado from the 60s and 70s with BCI and just R/F tech...it will blow your mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Thank you Dave Raggett
Open Water also hopes to use advances in neural imaging and brain-machine interfaces to create a system for reading and communicating human thoughts electronically
Feasibility of any such device aside.. I don't for a second believe that this is being worked on to benefit medical science, it's just an attack on pretty much the last place you can have privacy: Your own thoughts. Them, them, FUCK THEM, and their privacy-invading bullshit.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Cannot wait to see what Peter Gabriel creates with tools like this!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
I'm guessing she's talking about creating a NIRS device. It sorta passes as brain imaging, but at a superficial level. There are already that are fairly wearable because all you really need are tunable lasers, or can sacrifice clarity and use LEDs. It's not a whole lot different than using an oximeter.
NIRS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-infrared_spectroscopy
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