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…
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Non-invasive glucose monitoring simply by scanning your eye? What a dream! But we’ve heard it all before, and it ain’t lookin’ too promising to become a reality any time soon, right? I mean, we were all watching both Fovi Optics and Oculir closely before both companies folded due to optical scanning technology that simply didn’t work.
Well, now there’s some new hope, in the form of Freedom Meditech, a San Diego-based company that’s developing an…
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Most of us living with diabetes for more than a year or two have become pretty practical. Which is to say, skeptical. We’re not jumping up and down anymore every time we hear of some “revolutionary” new treatment that’s supposedly going to transform our lives. Because we know this transformation’s gonna be a loooong time coming.
Take non-invasive glucose monitoring (blood glucose testing without pricking the skin), for example. You would’ve thought, with the rapid-fire…
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