A closer look
Nothing motivates innovation quite like having your skull cut open. After surviving a brain tumor, display engineering genius Mary Lou Jepsen didn't just retire; she founded Openwater to create wearable holographic screens that can literally see inside your body. Using advanced opto-electronics and infrared light, her tech aims to shrink a multimillion-dollar MRI machine into a wearable ski hat. The goal? To read blood flow in the brain with such high resolution that it essentially decodes human thoughts, turning her medical trauma into the foundation for actual, working telepathy hardware.
