All the entries are in for this year’s exciting
DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge
* a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes *
CLICK HERE to review all the details on this competition.
Winners will be chosen this week and announced on Friday, June 20. Here’s your part in all this, Dear Reader:
As noted, winners will be evaluated by a sort of reverse…
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I slept late on Saturday. And as much of a treat as that was, I knew I was in trouble. I planned to do my big two-hour workout at 10:15am that morning, and now I had just one hour to eat and adjust my insulin dosing. This was going to be tricky.
I tried to do the super-low-carb breakfast, in order to keep insulin requirements down to null, but instead reaffirmed that I just can’t…
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I guess you could say we’re lucky to have diabetes in an era when people get rewarded for reaching above and beyond the norm while living with this disease. Years ago, who ever singled people out for being inspirational with a chronic illness? Nowadays, we’ve got the Joslin Center honoring folks for longevity with diabetes, Animas Corp. and dLife showcasing diabetes heroes, Bayer with their Dream Fund contest, and as of last year, perhaps the…
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Finally, a chance to offer a roundup of some of the most intriguing things I saw on the show floor at last weekend’s annual ADA conference here in San Francisco:
* From Medtronic, a prototype of a “baby monitor” device that connects wirelessly with the Guardian CGM system. The idea is that parents would purchase a unit they could plug into the wall and place on their bedside table to view and monitor junior’s BG…
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Do you have a great concept for a product that will help people with diabetes live better? Well, you’ve got until midnight this coming Monday, June 16, to tell us about it — and seize your chance to be one of two winners of the DiabetesMine Design Challenge. We plan to announce the results next Friday, June 20.
Just a reminder that we’re accepting entries in two categories: under age 18 and over age 18.…
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