Wednesday, August 15, 2007

The iPod of Glucose Monitors and Insulin Pumps

Filed under: Medicine

In April, Amy Tenderich, of Diabetes Mine, wrote an open letter to Steve Jobs complaining about the "clunky" state of blood glucose monitors and insulin pumps. She wanted more of an Apple approach to the design of these things. In response, a San Francisco design firm called Adaptive Path, not Apple, came up with the Charmr device concept. Watch the video:

Check out Amy's site for more details and images of the device.

More thoughts, and with a hat tip, at Bernard Farrell's blog...

Adaptive Path...

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