We had two video entries in this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge presenting the same idea: why not offer colored insulin, which would not only be useful but potentially life-saving for us folks who live on the stuff?
The idea is not entirely new. Diabetes Health magazine had a series of articles / letters to the editor discussing the possibility last year. As you can see by our contest entries, there are two pillars to the…
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Today, meet the Grand Prize winners of the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge, two graduate students who came up with the $10,000 idea for improving life with this illness. CONGRATULATIONS!
They are:
Eric Schickli, a 23-year-old grad student in Northwestern University’s Engineering Design and Innovation masters program (essentially a combined design and engineering program), and an aspiring product design engineer.
and
Samanatha Katz, a 26-year-old grad student majoring in Healthcare Enterprise Management, Marketing, and Design through a…
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Following on Monday’s announcement of our 2009 Design Challenge winners, today begins a series of “back-end” coverage of the great variety of innovative ideas we received. Look for more details on our winners later this week. Grand Prize winners Eric Schickli and Samantha Katz will be here talking about their inspiration for the revolutionary LifeCase & LifeApp system, and their plans to move it forward.
For today, I thought it would be fun to share…
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A huge congratulations and thank you to all who participated in this open innovation contest! This is truly “crowdsourcing” at its best — asking the community for its brightest ideas on how to improve life with diabetes.
At final toll, we received over 150 entries from participants describing themselves as:
Students – in Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, Biotechnology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Biology, and Business
Electronic and computer engineers
Graphic designers
Entrepreneurs
Medical device…
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