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My family has a history of blood pressure problems, so my mother, in order to keep control, has had to buy a couple of devices to measure her blood pressure, which she also uses with my father and grandmother.
I just think it's fantastic that such devices already exist and are so affordable. It makes me wonder if maybe in a handful of years we will have the ability to do x-rays at home and things like that, it would be great.
I get what you mean, but home x-ray machines should probably never happen hahaha
So once upon a time this was a thingβ¦
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
Americans drinking lead water and testing cocaine to see if it cures laziness, fitting shoes with x-rays, you're truly the most adventurous people in some ways!
That's really cool! I need a pedoscope apparently. A real shame most stuff like that is dangerous.
I would much rather do x-rays at home with an app or something, than have to go to the hospital to get them done.
for sure, it's just that xrays are ionizing radiation and as such are extremely hazardouss. xray techs wont even be in the same room as the machine when its on. the glass they're looking at you through is leaded to prevent their repeated exposure to it.
Near-field radio-wave shenanigans might fake it. There's all kinds of electromagnetism passing through you and you're interfering with some of it. Resolution is limited by wave-length... unless the sensor is within that distance. That's still going to be blurry, but deconvolution mmmight recover enough detail to go "yep, that's broken."
I mean, the x-ray thing was just a random example, but okey π€·