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mpouraryan
5/9/2016 11:50:50 PM
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Re: facebook exec
Time will tell--whether they stay "paranoid" is the key. I am sure a lot of folks miss Andy Grove today as they seem to have forgotten his ultimate admonition as Intel got left in the "dust" during the transformation that we've all been witness to.
mpouraryan
5/9/2016 11:48:57 PM
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Re: 'tever
It is still a developing concept and not truly ready for "prime time"--no question. I wonder whether those who embrace Augmented Reality will get a leg up?
mpouraryan
5/9/2016 11:47:15 PM
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Re: facebook exec
The challenge, @batye, is for all to realize the lessons. In the quest to "grow", some may end up forgetting--and those who do not learn and embrace the lessons of history are bound to repeat it. The tech Graveyard is full of it--including Blackberry--right?
Ariella
5/9/2016 8:12:01 PM
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Re: Reality check?
@mhhf1ve Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, the man behind the Butterfy Network believes it's possible. He must have been fairly convincing for investors who came up with $100 million in funding for his company in 2014. See https://www.technologyreview.com/s/532166/with-100-million-entrepreneur-sees-path-to-disrupt-medical-imaging/:
"I set out to make a super-low-cost version of this $6 million machine, to make it 1,000 times cheaper, 1,000 times faster, and a hundred times more precise."
Rothberg claims there's a "secret sauce" to Butterfly's technology, but he won't reveal it. But it may have as much to do with clever device and circuit design as overcoming the physical limits and manufacturing problems that CMUT technology has faced so far.
mhhf1ve
5/9/2016 7:05:30 PM
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Re: Reality check?
That's a very good link, there, but I'm still quite skeptical of the prediction that a "hand held MRI" is not far from becoming a reality. Perhaps I haven't kept up on the developments in high-magnetic-field-generating devices, but I thought there was a good reason why MRI machines required their own room and trained technicians to operate and maintain them.
Maybe there's better signal processing hardware that doesn't require such a high magnetic field to produce high resolution MRI data? Hmm. I'll have to look into that....
But ultimately, I think Facebook is going to need someone with different skills to promote the Oculus product going forward so that it can become a consumer device. Developing a new tool is much different from building market adoption and educating people in how to use it....
Facebook investing in VR tech is pretty forward-thinking, and I hope it pans out. But I personally don't see the value in it yet from the few demos I've encountered. I remember when Silicon Graphics was making cool 3D visualization tools with glasses that flickered in sync with a monitor to beam stereovision at a user's eyes in real time...
Ariella
5/9/2016 3:37:00 PM
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Re: Reality check?
@mhhf1ve this is just the kind of thing that makes Eric Topol such a fan of technology. He was quoted (well, paraphrased if you want to be technical about) here, http://www.radiologybusiness.com/topics/healthcare-economics/smartphone-disruptive-medicine, saying that a handheld MRI is on the way: "Of great relevance to radiology: Most medical imaging devices are undergoing miniaturization, beginning with ultrasound and Topol says hand-held MRI is not far behind. UCLA has devised a smartphone-sized device that can generate x-rays, he reports."
mhhf1ve
5/9/2016 2:15:46 PM
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Re: Reality check?
> "If this venture is about replacing MRIs with wearables.."
I'm wondering.. is it really about shrinking MRI? It's going to be pretty tricky to get high resolution magnetic resonance images from a "small" magnetic field because -- according to the physics -- the higher the magnetic field, the higher the resolution... And it's not that easy to get what usually takes a large superconducting magnet -- into a small "wearable" size. That would be a major breakthrough in itself!
Perhaps this is more about getting imaging from something that's not quite MRI, but somehow related? If MRI machines could be portable and small... I'm sure there would be a lot more applications in security lines and other fields, too.
Maybe this is more about getting all kinds of medical imaging into a "wearables" size -- like ultrasound combined with some kind of very low level "CT scan"?
jbtombes
5/9/2016 11:05:50 AM
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Re: Reality check?
Well put @dcawrey. If this venture is about replacing MRIs with wearables, then I'd guess Siemens and GE are paying close attention. Not that others are incapable of shaking up the medical device industry. Google has developed a contact lens that can test for blood sugar levels that's supposed to be going into clinical trials this year.
clrmoney
5/9/2016 11:04:03 AM
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facebook exec
I think she is making the right choice by leaving faceook to be bigger and better things.
jbtombes
5/9/2016 10:45:31 AM
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Re: 'tever
She's leveraged her unique set of skills (EE and visual arts at Brown before the Ph.D) for FB, Google before that, and One Laptop Per Child, as Mike mentions, the non-profit that redesigned computers for affordability.
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