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Tattoo Doubles as a Blood Glucose Level Monitor: Rebellious Yet Cautious
4:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | A Cambridge laboratory has developed a special ink for tattoos that changes colour based on glucose levels in the blood. On a related note, diabetes is now the hippest metabolic syndrome in town. More »
Gadgets
World’s Smallest Blood Glucose Meter Gets FDA Approved: True2Go
7:48PM Kit Eaton | Testing your blood glucose levels if you’re a diabetes sufferer may not mean hauling around large-ish devices now that the True2Go from Home Diagnostics has won FDA approval. It’s the world’s smallest, “about the size of a quarter”… it’s just about the same size as an iPod shuffle. It’s small enough to twist “on to a vial of test strips so diabetics can better manage their diabetes with the convenience of on-the-go testing,” which is darn convenient, and it uses 0.5 microliters of blood and has a test memory display. No word on pricing or release timings yet. [Medgadget] More »
Vehicles
M-Powered System Turns a Lincoln Into the Diabetesmobile
7:50AM Sean Fallon | I never thought about this before, but driving around in a car can be especially dangerous for people with severe cases of diabetes. Fortunately for them (and everyone else on the road), a company called Medtronic Diabetes has unveiled its new M-POWERED car–a Lincoln sedan fitted with a system that wirelessly connects a patient’s glucose monitor with the dashboard. Once connected, the system will continually update the driver’s on his/her health status via audio and visual cues. There is no word on whether or not this system will actually be available for patients anytime soon however. [Medgadget] More »
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