Today, the first up-close look at one of our 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge winners. Mauro Amoruso was honored with one of three Grand Prizes for his concept called Zero. It’s a combination insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor in a futuristic bracelet format:
Mauro is a 26-year-old freelance professional designer living in Turin, Italy. I spoke to him on the phone yesterday from across the world, with him repeatedly apologizing for his English. No worries…
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Fabulous news today, Friends: We received just over 130 entries in this year’s innovation contest. And the time has finally arrived for…
2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge: Community Voting!
Remember, your votes will determine the winners of the Kids’ Category, and Most Creative Idea Category — who will each receive a $1,000 cash prize.
For the Grand Prize Category, your votes will determine our Top 10 finalists. You currently have 25 semi-finalist entries to browse at…
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AmyT on
April 30, 2010
The 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge closes for entries at midnight tonight! What? You didn’t expect me to post about anything else today, did you?
I’m afraid I can’t really think about anything else right about now. Too excited to see what happens when the clock strikes twelve… So at the risk of sounding repetitive — in hopes of avoiding any submission snafus — here are once again those tips for successfully submitting your entry:
Don’t forget to…
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AmyT on
March 18, 2010
I proudly present Samantha Katz as Exhibit A: the graduate student from Northwestern University who (along with project partner Erik Schickli) won last year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge Grand Prize, and was subsequently hired by Medtronic Diabetes to help design their next-generation insulin pumps. (See yesterday’s big Medtronic announcement.) Samantha is living proof that “crowdsourcing” exercises like this contest can shake Pharma’s big tree.
This year, Samantha is one of our expert judges for the 2010…
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Disclosure: I do not know for sure whether this company intends to enter this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge competition (although I hope so!); I’ve simply been corresponding with the co-founder for several weeks and find the product interesting — and hopefully inspirational for all fans of diabetes innovation.
A small company in Finland called Mendor has caught the diabetes-consumer-design bug. The glucose meter they’re developing by the same name bears a striking resemblance to a cellphone,…
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