• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    37 minutes ago

    No, OPM-MEG is still done with a large machine, where do you think all the wires coming out of the silly hat go? I don’t think you read much at all.

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      32 minutes ago

      They go to the fucking lasers. They’re fiber optic cables. The big machine was a device your head was strapped into, and you couldn’t move or you’d disrupt the readings

      See? This is what I mean by dishonest. My research took me to other groups who built this tech. If they miniaturized it, it was incremental improvement on the big advancement someone else made

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        26 minutes ago

        Well of course it’s an incremental improvement. Nobody but you is claiming anyone invented anything new.

        The wearable headset as it sits is still not portable, making it portable would be an excellent, and incremental, yes, advancement.

        From a different article:

        Although the wearable MEG system is housed inside a magnetically shielded room, it is still essential to cancel out the remnant Earth’s field. To do this, the team constructed a set of bi-planar electromagnetic coils that generate fields equal and opposite to the remnant Earth’s field. The coils – designed on two 1.6 m2 planes, placed either side of the subject – achieved a 15-fold reduction in the remnant field.

        Making this portable if possible would be very useful.