The Vein Viewer (Cool futuristic looking device lets us see blood vessels and blood flow underneath

[Killer900]

[video=youtube;KZGrQZSF1xY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZGrQZSF1xY[/video]

[quote]Alison Woollard demonstrates the VeinViewer - a device which allows you to see through the skin. The VeinViewer uses near-infrared light to detect vessels and blood up to 10mm beneath the surface, and projects a picture onto the skin to reveal vessel structure and blood flow in real time.[/quote]

This thing is so neat! Imagine how much this tech will improve and get better 5-10 years from now.

Here's another video

[video=youtube;VeFpoCDxxrQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFpoCDxxrQ[/video]

[God of Ashes]

it's a shame that the lady who butchered my arm didn't have this when i was donating blood

[Ricaaado]

This is [b]the future[/b] people! Awesome!

[Fatfatfatty]

That shit is right out of star trek

[NOD Engineer]

The future arrived sooner then I thought

[-ZeeBo-]

Imagine using that on an erect penis

[Scot]

did you know that if you look at something bright like your monitor, make a tiny hole by curling your index finger under your thumb then wiggle the hole around right in front of your eye, you can see the blood vessels inside it.

[LoneWolf_Recon]

I predict alot more non-invasive diagnostics in the future.

[Tmaxx]

[QUOTE=Scot;43771045]did you know that if you look at something bright like your monitor, make a tiny hole by curling your index finger under your thumb then wiggle the hole around right in front of your eye, you can see the blood vessels inside it.[/QUOTE]
I saw what looked like veins over concentric circles with a small hole in the middle when i did this

neat.

[Krooms]

I honestly want to look at all of the veins and shit in my ballsack.

[Tacooo]

Oh god, this was disgusting to me for some reason, when she showed his neck oh god. I now know that I could never be a doctor

[Dysgalt]

So what I'm getting at is the device is like when you take a bright light and place it against your hand allowing you to see the veins/bones, but this is clearly different. I'm guessing it uses different light spectrum to accomplish this. Probably Near-IR because that is the popular thing and the blood absorbs it pretty well I suppose seeing as the veins are lit up, yay for near-IR spectroscopy.