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Couple Works to Make Diabetes Devices ‘A Little Less Drab’

By MikeH on May 24, 2013

If we’re forced to wear and carry medical devices all the time, we can at least spice up our gadgets with some color and decorative accents, right?Small But Mighty Icon

That’s what motivated a Pittsburgh couple to create their own business aimed at designing vinyl skin covers for the OmniPod tubeless insulin pump, Dexcom G4 Platinum continuous glucose monitor (CGM), and OneTouch VerioIQ glucose meter. Their outfit is called PumpPeelz, and it has apparently taken off like wildfire in the diabetes community — so we think their story is a perfect fit for our Small But Mighty series profiling small companies launched by passionate patients or caregivers.

The inventors are Scott Imblum and Emily Hixon, and they’ve battled resistance from the tubeless patch pump manufacturer Insulet in getting their idea off the ground.

Their story has a sort of “David vs. Goliath” feel to it, with the twist of David convincing Goliath they should be friends. In this case, it’s the story of a 20-something PWD and her soon-to-be husband vying for the support of the widely-popular Pod manufacturer, using the online community’s voice!

The backstory behind PumpPeelz actually began about a decade ago when Emily and Scott started dating back in high school…

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