Turning Your Smartphone into an All-In-One Glucose Meter

[Northerner]

Last year Sanofi?s iBGStar was the talk of the town, and the Mendor from Finland - a meter, lancing device, and test strips, all contained in one unit ? had our attention, too. Today, however, a new glucose meter developed in Israel has us riveted. It?s called Dario. This new meter has the best of iBGStar and Mendor, all rolled into one.

The Dario glucose meter was created by LabStyle Innovation, a company founded in 2010, in order to implement a new patent pending technology that seeks to bring laboratory testing capabilities to consumers through smartphones in an easy, friendly and inexpensive way. In a nutshell, the Dario turns a smartphone into a diabetes management system. The founders of LabStyle say that since the fundamental way of self-monitoring blood glucose has not really changed in more than 30 years, they believe Dario will make a big difference in diabetes care.

http://asweetlife.org/feature/dario-turning-your-smartphone-into-a-glucose-meter/

🙂 Interesting!

 

[robofski]

That looks like a neat device! Will be keeping my eye out for that!

 

[redrevis]

Looks like an interesting idea. A few things though:

The Dario is an integrated unit that includes a basic adapter designed to connect to the audio jack of a smartphone. When the adapter is connected, a measurement is transmitted to the smartphone, turning the phone into a glucose monitor.

How can information be sent to the phone via an audio out port? I thought audio out could only be used as stated, information going 'out' not in

How would this fit seamlessly to all smartphones? We all know how they all vary in size, shape, thickness. Surely this will just look clunky an arkward if it's not a seamless fit.

Would be good to see some pictures of it attached to various different smartphones.

 

[robofski]

Here's a video showing it in use

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?featur...i=/watch?v=fnRxt_K5q5g&feature=youtu.be&gl=GB