Remember those fun educational toys from the past like Legos, Lincoln Logs and Speak & Spell, that not only were cool to play with but also taught us something?
Well soon enough, we PWDs may have one of our own: the new Hemoglobin A1C action figure!
Wait… a toy HbA1C?! Yep, you read that right. There could soon be a toy based on the three-month average test that those of us in the Diabetes Community…
Got opinions about current diabetes devices & treatments and how they could be improved? Of course you do!
There are just twelve days left to enter our epic Diabetes Patient Voices Contest — a one-of-kind opportunity for 10* well-spoken patient advocates to meet with decision-makers in Pharma, technology, design, health gaming and other relevant fields to talk about what works for us and what doesn’t. Who knows better than we, the patients, what we need…
Emily Allen, winner of one of three Grand Prizes in this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge, does not have diabetes. But boy, does this gal “get it”! This 25-year-old from Bloomington, Indiana, completed her graduate studies in human-computer interaction design at Indiana University just last year, and was immediately hired by health care device firm Cook Medical, where she had worked as an intern for the previous year.
Emily’s winning design was diaPETic. Here’s the…
A huge thank you and congratulations to all who participated in our 2011 open innovation contest! Yet again we feel this effort is an example of “crowdsourcing” at its best — culling the brightest concepts from across the community to help improve life with diabetes.
Jeffrey Brewer, President and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), recently stated:
“This contest has created a great deal of buzz within the diabetes industry, really helping to…
Luciana Urruty is a 26-year-old former textile designer and assistant professor in the School of Design of Uruguay. Yes, she lives in Uruguay and speaks Spanish and a little English. After 5 years of work, Luciana decided to quit the fashion industry in order to pursue something that gave her more purpose in life.
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 15, Luciana was inspired when she saw our contest video earlier this year. She…