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calmond writes:
"Researchers from the University of Michigan have created a super-thin light detector that can pick up the entire infrared spectrum in addition to visible and ultraviolet light. The heat vision technology is made of graphene, which is considered to be the world's strongest material, and is small enough to fit on a contact lens.
Its developers say the technology could one day give people super-human vision and is particularly relevant for use by the military. Other, non-military uses, such as checking power distribution cables or search-and-rescue tasks are also possible.
A news release from the University team is to be found here, while a technical abstract is here. Unfortunately, the full technical paper is only viewable by payment or membership.
(Score: -1, Troll) by DrRJonesDC on Thursday March 20 2014, @03:21PM
People wearing these contacts would have epileptic seizures when seeing the flashing of infrared remote controls. There are ways to reduce the number and/or intensity of seizures through intensive chiropractic care, but this might just overload the body's nervous system.
The Spine Whisperer
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @03:24PM
Lol, pseudoscience.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @03:39PM
+1
Ran out of mod points...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @04:03PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:57PM
On the other hand, back pain therapies from conventional medicine are generally guesses at best. The surgery routes seem to be about as effective as placebo (but with far more probability of making things much worse). Nobody has yet figured out how to distinguish the MRI of a person with debilitating back pain from that of a healthy person.
That doesn't legitimize the far fringes of Chiropracty, of course, but I know first hand that carefully popping the back can greatly relieve pain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @12:54AM
physiotherapy lies in the same category then. Physiotherapy made my wife's sciatica worse and it was finally chiropractic professionals that finally helped her to regain some mobility and gain some relief from the two herniated discs she had. Likewise, the hospital could not even diagnose my wrists which took a shock when I had jump off my bicycle onto a road bunker. X-rays indicated no fractures and they shooed me away even though I keep telling them that I cannot do a full rotation without pain nor make full use of them. Again it was another form of chiropractic treatment (Chinese "bone-setters") that came to my rescue and I am happy to say that I also do not have any arthritis issues with my wrists after twenty years.
It comes down to if you get a good doctor in these areas, it does not matter which particular training and instruction they learnt. However, if you are talking about on average, physiotherapy and surgery is highly likely going to make you worse when they mess with your spine or whatever. They interfere with your body's ability to heal itself just like a lot of the 'medicines' available interfere with body processes designed to remove pathogens. We have gone from tonsils and the appendix are useless and should be removed to unless absolutely necessary, they should not be cut out. Likewise, the medical industry has gone from blood is the gift of life to blood transfusions are dangerous practice and the cause of many after-surgery complications, extended hospital stay and even death. Then there is the matter of antibiotics. True, there are quacks out there but if you want to call a certain field of alternative medicine quackery, the history of modern medicine has its share of field-wide quackery. Modern medicine, despite all its advancements, does not have a monopoly on good medical care.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @06:21PM
A quick google yielded this:
"Between 3-30 hertz (flashes per second) are the common rates to trigger seizures"
Infrared remotes have a carrier of ~38KHz and the signal is then pulsed on and off at intervals of ~1-3ms to encode the commands on the carrier:n als [adafruit.com]
http://learn.adafruit.com/ir-sensor/ir-remote-sig
IR remotes don't seem to be a plausible source for epileptic seizures given those facts.
(Score: 1) by Blackmoore on Friday March 21 2014, @12:18PM
good.