I'd recommend checking out an ophthalmoscope - you can get a decent one for $150 - and figuring out a way of hooking up a small digital camera to the end through which the image is displayed. Admittedly, my knowledge about such things is more on the medical end of things, and way less on the technical, but I think that setting up the hardware itself would not be that difficult - the harder part would be aiming the light into your own eye properly. As a medical student and owner of an ophthalmoscope myself, I can tell you that it's pretty darn tricky to shine that light just right so that it displays those vessels nicely.
I feel like I've been duped - my professors told me otherwise. Just goes to show, you can't believe everything you hear.
Thanks for setting me straight.
Actually, current pacemakers can only be set to one speed, so people who have these devices already have the limitation of non-variable heartrate. While this is a setback for the pacemaker-using crowd, almost all agree that having a non-variable heart rate is better than having no heart rate at all.
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I'd recommend checking out an ophthalmoscope - you can get a decent one for $150 - and figuring out a way of hooking up a small digital camera to the end through which the image is displayed. Admittedly, my knowledge about such things is more on the medical end of things, and way less on the technical, but I think that setting up the hardware itself would not be that difficult - the harder part would be aiming the light into your own eye properly. As a medical student and owner of an ophthalmoscope myself, I can tell you that it's pretty darn tricky to shine that light just right so that it displays those vessels nicely.
I feel like I've been duped - my professors told me otherwise. Just goes to show, you can't believe everything you hear. Thanks for setting me straight.
Touché :)
Actually, current pacemakers can only be set to one speed, so people who have these devices already have the limitation of non-variable heartrate. While this is a setback for the pacemaker-using crowd, almost all agree that having a non-variable heart rate is better than having no heart rate at all.