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> They don’t fund consumer products like this, but we agreed that the most plausible path to market is the open-source route, potentially turning it into a more general-purpose Pebble successor.
Do you mean Kickstarter?
That said, I would feel pretty nervous about actually selling these, as I wouldn't be surprised if it is legally considered a medical device.
I'm going to buck the trend and say this is an excellent idea, but it should absolutely NOT be used for its indended purpose. If OP wants to track his own insulin levels, fine, but to put DIY, uncertified, learn-as-you-go medical monitoring device on someone else, let alone your own son is f*cking bonkers.
For T1Ds, you pretty much constantly have to monitor your blood glucose level. I used to use a Pebble for this, now I use an Apple Watch. The Apple Watch backgrounds the monitoring all the damn time, so I have to click multiple buttons and wait to see my blood sugar, when the number is immediately available on my phone (the watch didn’t used to be this bad). The entire point of this hardware project is eliminating that latency.
I'm going to buck the trend and say this is an excellent idea, but it should absolutely NOT be used for its indended purpose. If OP wants to track his own insulin levels, fine, but to put DIY, uncertified, learn-as-you-go medical monitoring device on someone else, let alone your own son is f*cking bonkers.
I'm going to buck the trend and say this is an excellent idea, but it should absolutely NOT be used for its indended purpose. If OP wants to track his own insulin levels, fine, but to put DIY, uncertified, learn-as-you-go medical monitoring device on someone else, let alone your own son is f*cking bonkers.
Feels like low risk unless the watch gets out of sync (but easy enough to change the code to stop the watch from showing old data if that happens).
I'm going to buck the trend and say this is an excellent idea, but it should absolutely NOT be used for its indended purpose. If OP wants to track his own insulin levels, fine, but to put DIY, uncertified, learn-as-you-go medical monitoring device on someone else, let alone your own son is f*cking bonkers.
I'm going to buck the trend and say this is an excellent idea, but it should absolutely NOT be used for its indended purpose. If OP wants to track his own insulin levels, fine, but to put DIY, uncertified, learn-as-you-go medical monitoring device on someone else, let alone your own son is f*cking bonkers.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. For T1Ds, you pretty much constantly have to monitor your blood glucose level. I used to use a Pebble for this, now I use an Apple Watch. The Apple Watch backgrounds the monitoring all the damn time, so I have to click multiple buttons and wait to see my blood sugar, when the number is immediately available on my phone (the watch didn’t used to be this bad). The entire poin…