More Futuristic Diabetes Design

A Holiday Hello to you all!  Today, a few additional forward-looking diabetes device designs that came my way this year, which I haven't got around to posting yet.

Also, don't forget to have a look at the 2007 Diabetes Year in Review here, just updated with new input from the Community -- and add your two cents in the comments section.

* From design student Joe Urich at the California College of the Arts:

CheckIt

- a CGM system designed for children with diabetes.  The concept is based on microneedles on the wristband's underside, which will "painlessly penetrate the skin" and take a glucose reading every 2 minutes.  The little screen displays current blood sugar level and a graph of readings for the last 15 minutes that's color-coded for highs and lows.  The readings are also transmitted to a parents' monitor using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology.  An alarm instantly alerts parents when BG is too low or high.  The alarm monitor also stores glucose tabs and a syringe for quick action in either direction when required.

Urich's design won Second Place in the international Eye for Why competition this summer, sponsored by Dyson Inc. and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).

and...

* From a small but ambitious Israeli company:

- a new disposable insulin pump design that will cost less than the OmniPod and also be simpler, ie. less feature-rich.  But the company tells me they have "opted to use an ICU Orbit 90 infusion set (without the tubing), not an integral cannula, but as a result you can temporarily detach the pump for the jaccuzzi or other activities."   

Feedback on this one?

It was a big year for Big Ideas in diabetes design indeed.

Comments

[Kevin]

Is there a link, or any other information about Check it?

[Angela]

I hope Check It has some sort of cover the child can use to keep everyone and his favorite bully out of the child's business? SUPER idea. It seems to need just a little more refining.

[Reyes Ruiz]

Why don't they make a unit that a person can wear on his body that will monitor your sugar level thourghout the day. I am someone that has a job that sometimes require that I work late. It is hard for me to check my sugar or remember to check it. I there was a divice like a wrist band that did it for you in the mornings and then when you have your meals during the day and then before you go to bed. Then you can plug into your computer in the weekend to monitor your weeks results. Now that would be something I would use. Make it in a way that it looks like jewelry and people will not always ask you whats that on your wrist. Fasinable for men and women.