I’ve been up to my ears in sorting and cataloging the abundant entries we received for this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge, which closed for submissions last Friday. So much so that I haven’t had time to think about — or write about — much else. A quick numerical overview of the outpouring of creativity we’ve seen:
152 = total number of contest submissions received this year, once all the ‘outliers’ were properly located (some weren’t…
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Today is the final day to enter the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. You have until 11:59pm Pacific time to submit your brilliant idea for a new device or web tool to make life with diabetes better.
We have a great batch of tantalizing new concepts coming in…
See the video entries to date here:
http://www.youtube.com/group/DBMine2009Contest
and the
paper entries to date here:
http://www.scribd.com/group/71420-2009-diabetesmine-design-challenge
ENTER THE CONTEST here.
Meet our judges by reading their interviews…
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By
AmyT on
April 27, 2009
IDEO is the world-renown design firm that transformed Kaiser Permanente’s modus operandi. They made the cover of BusinessWeek a few years ago. They’ve won scores of design competitions themselves.
So needless to say, we’re delighted to have them on board for the DiabetesMine Design Challenge, open for submissions until May 1, 2009 (so get movin’!). IDEO Senior Design Strategist John Lai is one of our judges this year, and two of our Design Challenge winners…
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AmyT on
April 23, 2009
Medgadget.com is essentially the “Engadget of the medical world,” if that tells you anything. The site bills itself as the “internet journal of emerging medical technologies.” Four of its six editors are practicing MDs. I’ve been privileged to know executive editor Michael Ostrovsky for several years. He’s a busy anesthesiologist with two small children who still manages to do all that daily work on the Medgadget site.
He’s been a big supporter of the DiabetesMine Design Challenge…
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