Next Big Future
Brian Wang
Aug. 24, 2018
Openwater’s breakthrough portable MRI could get around smartphone pricing. They will need improved AI so that reading of the MRI image does not require thousands of dollars in training.
Openwater is creating MRI-resolution wearables that leverage consumer electronics manufacturing facilities and techniques with a physics breakthrough based on a now half-century-old technique, mostly forgotten, and re-invented every decade or so by a group that didn’t know about the previous go-arounds. They figured out how to build this half-century-old physical principle into consumer electronic devices that can be made in the world’s high volume manufacturing facilities and also leverage the awesome compute power and AI methods we have at our fingertips today.
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