It’s not always easy to find a vein under a patient’s skin, especially if they have a darker complexion. This device, called the VeinViewer, solves that problem with augmented reality.
First, the device scans a patient’s skin using infrared light. By capturing and processing the reflected radiation, it identifies the locations of blood vessels and projects a bright green light onto the surface to highlight the where they are.
The resolution can be set so high that even the valves within veins as small as 0.22mm across can be seen, making finding a site for an injection a little less painful. There’s also promise for its use in the treatment and diagnosis of varicose veins, and aid in transfusions and blood sampling.
Writer Mandy Len Catron thinks our current metaphors are too violent and passive. Instead, she suggests we view love as a collaborative work of art. Collaboration requires effort, compromise, patience and a shared goal. Ups and downs are, of course, inevitable, but this metaphor allows us to focus on what we have to offer instead of what we have to lose.
“The beautiful thing about the collaborative work of art is that it will not paint or draw or sculpt itself,” says Mandy. “This version of love allows us to decide what it looks like.”
Watch her beautiful TED Talk about our metaphors for love here.
Wow I love the fact that nobody I know uses this LMAO. Time to rip everyone in my life apart and examine wtf I’m doing with my straight outa 12th-grade life.
Why is fear our default to anything unfamiliar? This has to be conditioning right? I mean, we couldn’t have been born with these things ingrained in us. Things like being wary of strangers and assuming the worst out of every new opportunity or situation.
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