MannKind Corp., the most aggressive company pushing ahead on bringing inhalable insulin to market post the Exubera debacle, took a hit last week when it was forced to announce that a critical marketing partnership didn’t pan out. Investors are now fighting over the company’s future.
As a PWD who watched the whole sordid Exubera story play out with a sad smirk on my face (we all knew the product was too clunky and hard to…
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Did I say I was finished reviewing the fabulous submissions in this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge? Well I lied, sorry. There’s one more design that came very close to winning that I’d like to share today.
Remember how we said the Grand Prize winner LifeCase/LifeApp — a design concept that converts your iPhone into your glucose monitor + insulin pump controller — could easily be extended to include continuous glucose monitoring capabilities? Well, this is probably…
A final run-through of our 150+ amazing submissions in this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge reveals some of the “prettiest” entries — those that obviously come from the world of artful design rather than medical utility. And why shouldn’t more medical devices be more aesthetic?!
PicoSulin mini insulin pump
- weighs just 2 oz. and uses and insulin penfill cartridge, plus it looks a heck of lot like an iPod Nano -
(click on the…
More contest entries worth featuring… these ideas stood out as incredibly creative. So creative, in fact, that the judges struggled with rating them, either due to uncertainty whether they’d be implementable any time in the foreseeable future, or the fact that the target audience may be a small slice of the D-world. Still, as we noted, lots of great ideas from some very visionary people:
Diabetic Data Cloud
- the notion that our digital…
When will we stop bleeding daily for our diabetes? Nobody knows. But despite years of struggling with the “non-invasive dream,” you can rest assured that scientists and designers have not given up trying.
I may have mentioned that we had a total of 16 entries in this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge that were concepts for new non-invasive glucose monitoring technologies — each one more visionary than the last. How to evaluate these creative designs based…