I saw a suggestion on another post that a bright enough light may enable you to see your implants.
So I decided to give it a crack, and this is what I was able to achieve:
Because the red light permeates flesh much better I can hold my hand on that indefinitely. The overspill washes out the photo a bit, but in person it looks quite clear.
You know what? I don’t have a flashlight. But I have a 3W blue laser here. When I read your post, I figured “Hey, I’ll stick one of the 30-degree omnidirectional plastic laser diffusers I have from work in front of it, shine it on my hand and see if I can see something on the other side.”
Net result: within 2 seconds, the laser burned through the diffuser and burned my hand. You can’t be smart all the time…
Oh dear!.. that’s wildly unfortunate, and mildly funny.
I also have a green led and blue led flashlight to go with the red one. What I found was that only the red was visible through my hand.
My understanding is that because most of the insides of the hand are red, the red light transmits really well, while green and blue are absorbed.
This would also explain why the Emisar gets hot so quickly, as 2/3 of its emitted spectrum are absorbed by the flesh and turned straight into heat.
I think this has been mentioned before, but I was gifted a nice (very bright) flashlight a bit ago, and I realized that by shining it through my hand from the palm, it’s super easy with the naked eye to see my Spark 2 in L2. It’s harder to capture on camera, but I tried:
Found it on Amazon without too much searching. A cousin of mine bought a big box of them at some closeout store (whole family got one), and they didn’t have the box, so no idea what brand these were even sold under. There’s no name on the body of the light either.
I expected to hate it, but it’s actually a pretty decent light. Uses an 18650 with a built-in charger, and the actual LED on it is decent. This listing claims to be 1000 lumens, which I don’t doubt, seems realistic for how bright it seems. It has a true UV light built-in too, as a seperate LED right next to the main one. That makes it super useful to me. I need a UV light surprisingly often (clearing EPROMS, checking currency, gross public bathrooms, etc. lmao), and I can never seem to find my dedicated one when I need it.
It’s got a strong magnet on the bottom, which is nice to stick on the beam of my shed when I’m working in there at night.
Overall, 10/10 gift from family I don’t see often lol
