Technology
Light, sound, and electromagnetics have been used in medicine for decades — X-rays, ultrasound, MRI. But the physics of how they interact with our bodies enables far more than current devices exploit.
Thousands of peer-reviewed papers point to a coming wave: targeted photons and acoustic waves that can activate specific cell types, disrupt tumors, modulate neural circuits, pinpoint hemodynamic dysfunction, and accelerate healing — without drugs, without surgery, without side effects. The hardware to do this at scale has never existed. Until now.
We are building toward a single pan-disease platform designed to treat cancer, stroke, depression, autoimmune conditions, neurodegenerative disease, long COVID, and enable brain-computer interfaces — at the cost of a smartphone. That is the goal.
The science exists. The hardware exists. The trials are underway.
The Platform Two devices. One closed loop.
1/ Open-Motion measures blood flow, blood volume, and micro-motion deep beneath tissue — at a resolution that, in early studies, has exceeded MRI, CT, Doppler ultrasound, and fNIRS by significant margins. Clinical validation is ongoing.
2/ Open-LIFU delivers low-intensity focused ultrasound to treat and modulate tissue anywhere in the head or body.
Together they form the platform: treat with Open-LIFU, measure impact with Open-Motion, adjust in real time. Modular, reconfigurable, and extensible — start with one module and scale to many.
Open Source Every hardware design, firmware file, and software library is public. You inherit a decade of safety data, clinical validation, and engineering refinement the moment you start. A proven foundation that gets stronger every time someone builds on it.
The Software Layer A growing library of software and AI tools — signal processing, real-time classification, treatment protocols — built by Openwater and contributed by the community. Every device deployed adds to a shared intelligence that no single institution could build alone.
The Scale Built on high-volume semiconductor manufacturing lines, cost and availability scale with demand. What costs $10k today in small quantities follows the same curve as every consumer electronics device before it — down, fast, and far.
Anywhere on the body
Configure your own set up. Here a 6-pack tiled array for the abdomen.