For a guy like me, also an insulin pump that can handle a beating in rough treatment, water proof, and wearable in such a way as to not get caught up on things so easy when working in the normal everyday activities like raking a yard. Insulin infusion lines getting jerked out on rake handles sucks rocks at times.

When I first got my insulin pump, it went through two replacements before I learned not to damage it doing heavy duty things and activity. Also, a pump needs to be able to go a lot longer before having to be refilled with a canula that can survive more than “two or three days” before being changed out.

The more “normal” a person with type one can be, the better they will keep diabetes in “control” as the idiots of medicine term it in the illusion of “idealogy” they have about the reality of diabetes! All those “idiots” need to have a pancreas removed so they can understand the ease of keeping a balanced bg throughout a life time trying to be normal in a world totally ignorant about diabetes reality and the effects it will have long term. Even on you who think you are “okay” now will, with out the best fight you can envision and DO will pay a price both mentally and physically with your health. I’ve watched many who say insulin and a needle is all they need later on in life wish they had gone with a pump with type one, and done a better job fighting with the best “control” or “illusion of control” these docs want us to believe we can gain. I say illusion because real control with diabetes type one is only obtainable with a real cure, everything else is “out of control” if in the first place you even have diabetes to start with. Insulin is just a stop gap if there is no way of keeping it working 24/7 in an adequate manner, like repeated injections over a life time just to keep diabetes from ripping your other organs apart piece by piece. I speak on this matter from my 36 years of type one, and any doctor who wants to tell me diabetes is a “controllable” thing is so full of bs they have no idea what the reality of a life time of diabetes brings with the reality of day to day living in a real world of humans that DON’T have diabetes. Total BS for the doctors and medical profession to believe the lie they follow as “tradition” now days.

Control can be obtained, the technology exists where a very close thing to a cure can happen, it will only be a matter of the medical idiots to decide “WHEN” because at the moment the bottom line for them is more profit from the disasters diabetes brings with organ failures, eye disease, neuropathy and on and on the profit goes on that end. Not to mention the insulin industry itself is hugely profitable with the kinds of insulin I have to use at a hundred dollars a damned bottle! When I started using insulin, it was only around ten bucks a bottle! Inflation or Bull Crap going on with greedy pharmacy companies robbing people?

A real cure is possible, and some of you have nice idea’s, but think about the big picture of a life time of diabetes, and what would be really nice solutions for diabetes to bring down the averages on new disabilities due to diabetes like kidney failure, and eye failure and the such if a way to control the disease was designed such as to implement ease of use on the system used as ell as overall function of the systems used. For a person to fit into the normal world of eat when they want, how they want, and what they want would be nice. Or if they didn’t want to eat at all, then they don’t have to eat and follow a “meal plan” and all the other bull crap doctors consider every job must have built in, every function in life must have with it! LOL!

In my life I’ve worked jobs my bosses didn’t give a crap if I had diabetes or not, the job mattered, not my damned lunch break, so be it, design something that works in the real world people. Don’t play around with the bull shit inventions that aren’t worth me taking the time to sit and read aobut while I’m on my toilet.

Some ideas are okay, but none meet the brilliance that is possible yet. I stand by that, the best one in this list was the wrist insulin pump, and even it was not brilliant.

DJ Emery

Thanks for creating and organising this innovative competition. It was really fun to take part and see what everyone else came up with. Congrats to the winners!

Had you any plans to post what the community voting results were? Would be cool to see how much support the semi-finalists got and nice to know for all the people that voted how their opinions compared.

Cheers, Ben

The Kids Winner and Creative Winner were chosen via community voting from a group of 4 finalists in each category. If these winners seemed to be somewhat similar to the Grand Prize winning ideas, that is pure coincidence.

The goal of this competition is to encourage creative thinking in tools for living better with diabetes — not to invent the cure (I wish!) You personally may not be super enthusiastic here, but I assure you there was nothing “unfair” going on.

Done ‘splainin.

And yeah, I hear you about sometimes wanting to punch somebody in the nose

The winning stuff is okay, but none of it is “brilliant” so I challenge the next contestants to CURE DIABETES! LOL! Please! Would you please cure it for us who are TERMINAL DIABETES sufferers!

I’m dying from the disease myself, I’m on PD dialysis, use an insulin pump, have had it 36 years, and the docs at UNC say I’m not “psychylogically” stable enough for a transplant because I skip dialysis treatments some times and other stuff! LOL! Just because I’d like to be normal! Or go fishing over night, or act like a damned human!

I hate diabetes, invent something that makes me hate it less. I would give that first prize! Diabetes is my death, I hate it like I hate DEATH him or herself. What ever death will be, I don’t have a lot longer in this world to wait to find out I’m guessing. Hope to prove the docs wrong, maybe a device designed that would prove docs wrong when they tell patients like me I’ll be lucky to live to fifty!

The doc that told me that was in Louisiana, in Lake Charles, and if I could go back to Lake Charles and find him, I’d like to punch him in particular in the nose. He didn’t help anything at all with diabetes type one. Just makes me angry and I hold it for him till this day, and that happened over ten years ago! LOL! But I’d still like to punch him in the nose!

The rest is average. Seems better “idea’s” could be produced with todays advances in technology and other areas. But I’ve lived with type one diabetes 36 years, and I can see the results of the ADA saying a cure would happen in ten years at age six. Thirty six years later, the best “cure” I’ve used is an insulin pump, and it is a long way from what the potential is for better treatment.

The potential out there for better ways to deal with diabetes with technology far exceed what has been demonstrated with the entries in this contest. So being, that this is probably just students, they did a good job.

But there is a tremendous amount of room for better ideas. I haven’t seen anything “brilliant” in any of these. None I’d be happy to have to deal with if I was first being diagnosed with diabetes in having to use. I’d want stuff that I could use that made me “normal”.

Can any invent a pancreas that works like a real one? Now that I’d give brilliant award!

Diabetes should have been cured a long time ago according to what the ADA told me when I was six, I think they told me a fund raising lie. Since then I don’t donate to the ADA because they are liars and I highly doubt what they do will ever “cure” anything!

Work sincere to cure diabetes – all – and harder! I’m hardened about “new stuff” after 36 years of living with type one. It takes a lot to impress me with “innovation”, you have to really do something with what is “possible” to impress me. Just about cure it I’d say! LOL! I think it is possible to cure diabetes now with what is possible in the technical and medical fields.

DJ Emery