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GE’s blog about WIRED NEXTFEST.

The “VeinViewer”

By Josh Karpf — September 29, 2006 11:56 AM

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Making it easier for doctors and nurses to make your life easier.

This isn’t a GE product - but it’s fascinating. Anyone who’s ever gotten an IV knows how unpleasant the process can be. The Veinviewer is fast (no waiting for a scan) and uses simple near-infrared light, a digital video camera, and a digital video projector (using DLP technology from Texas Instruments) to project onto your skin an image of the vein structure below. It’s tough to overstate how simple and easy this is.