Did you get a picture of the device itself?
edit…it’s an Accuvein AV400 vein illuminator . They don’t say what it is on the website, but one website says it’s a UV IR laser
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I think you identified the device RobertB. The nurse didn’t seem to want to let the device out of her control, but it looked very much, if not exactly, like the device you named.
Hmmm, that does seem like a distinct possibility. You’re right, that would be out of this modder’s league.
Really cool! Banggood will probably have it in a few weeks for $8.47.
It’s definitely in the price range of IR cameras. And given that they show the veins in different colors, some with the veins darker, some with the veins lighter… I think Firelight2 nailed it. Otherwise their output would all look the same.
Cool stuff though 
It looks like it is projecting what it is reading.
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Yeah, it does look that way. Didn’t occur to me at the time, but I see that now. That would explain why what I have seen DIY’d online doesn’t look anything like what I saw at the hospital.
Yes, that seems the only logical, plausible explanation. There’s no way skin is going to reflect visible light differently based on vein placement or even temperature.
Exactly. Not yet anyway. Maybe next month that technology will be available.
Amazing! Should really help with those people who have hard-to-find veins.
You mean IR.
Hope the wife is better?
Cool tech!
Sounded like some kind of high powered UV when I read the OP but no eye protection
Of course you could simply use one of DB Customs high lumen lights and enlighten your hand from behind. If it doesn’t get vaporized you should see everything in between.
Oh, I have read. And I even understood. As probably everybody else in this thread. I was just pointing to something which could be DIY-ed.
She’s doing much better and recovering as good as could possibly be expected. Thanks for asking. The whole team at the hospital seemed first rate and I am so grateful.
The glasses seem more practical.
I remember when you could buy them from ads in the back of comic books.
Good to hear! Hope she gets well fast!
Now this screams for an app.
I have no Iphone of Iwatch
But the heartbeat sensor or screen sensing many levels of pressure must allow of a 3d scan of what happens under the skin. Then via augmented reality show it to users.
Now that would be an awesome app.
What memories I have of those X-ray spec glasses I lusted for as a kid. But who had a dollar much less the 25cents for shipping??? None of my buds that’s for sure. Ahhhhh……the late 50’s thru early 60”s. 
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That was still big money when I was a kid in the late 60’s early 70’s.
I’ve used one of these before. The one that I used was a wheeled unit and had the green light. The new smaller one seems to use the red. The larger green one I had used a DLP projector to put the IR map onto the skin. I haven’t used it in years but I do remember putting a gloved hand under it and it seeing through the glove without any problem. One time I used it and was able to get a line started on a patient that had nothing that I could feel or see. I got it right away and was pretty amazed. Interestingly, there was a setting for hairy. In actuality the hairy setting was the best for everybody in my experience.
You get to the point where you know the tricks and you sort of sense how to get it and don’t miss. But that said, I sure am glad that there are tools and devices that can help.