UPDATE: Movano Inc. Exits Stealth Mode and Secures $10M in Additional Funding to Transform Glucose Monitoring with Non-Invasive Technology

[Bruce Stephens]

The story (and their website) doesn't give me any clues about what on earth they might be talking about. (They refer to RF and sometimes skin sensors. Presumably they have something in mind, but I wouldn't be surprised if we never hear from them again.)

UPDATE: Movano Inc. Exits Stealth Mode and Secures $10M in Additional Funding to Transform Glucose Monitoring with Non-Invasive Technology

Company’s needle-free wearable technology will provide painless, real-time glucose readings at the glance of a wrist...

www.globenewswire.com

 

[Amity Island]

The story (and their website) doesn't give me any clues about what on earth they might be talking about. (They refer to RF and sometimes skin sensors. Presumably they have something in mind, but I wouldn't be surprised if we never hear from them again.)

UPDATE: Movano Inc. Exits Stealth Mode and Secures $10M in Additional Funding to Transform Glucose Monitoring with Non-Invasive Technology

Company’s needle-free wearable technology will provide painless, real-time glucose readings at the glance of a wrist...

www.globenewswire.com

Good thing about that which libre has missed is it can easily be checked whilst driving! just like a watch can.

 

[trophywench]

Needle free. Interesting - wth (hell) is it measuring the glucose in, then? The hairs on the back of the wrist?

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Needle free. Interesting - wth (hell) is it measuring the glucose in, then? The hairs on the back of the wrist?

My guess would be some combination of skin resistance/capacitance, with maybe RF through the skin? Maybe they've got some reason to think that they can get something useful out of that. (To be fair there is such a device. Tim Cook used it for a while.) But that would be useful only for rough measures (so not useful for many people with diabetes), but I could imagine a market for it.

(More cynically: they'll take investor money for a while then either disappear or "pivot" and do something that actually works.)

 

[Docb]

The next big shift in health care will be the development of remote systems for monitoring the way the body is working. Dunno how this lot are going to monitor blood glucose remotely but they either have a good idea or are a bunch of charlatans. Could be either (or both!)

I am quite convinced that before long systems will be developed for remote monitoring of neural transmissions. It's such an obvious thing to look at and someday somebody will figure out a principal for doing it, starting the process of the development of kit to achieve it. That is something that no doubt would be influenced by blood glucose levels. Won't come from the medical profession, far too steeped in their fixed ways. It will come from the semiconductor industry.

 

[grovesy]

These needless technologies have been touted for a number of years but none have seemed to have made to market,

 

[mikeyB]

Let's just wait and see. Mind, I wouldn't wear a watch with a stainless steel bracelet. I'm a leather man. Or gold, of course.😎

 

[trophywench]

It's the size of 'watches that do stuff' that I hate. I now have a gold watch - a gold Longines ladies one that's still a tad big for me cos it's 3.5 cm from where the bracelet starts to bend across the face to the other side at the same point. Widthways the dial is 2.5cm ie 1 inch or a tad less. It was the smallest one I could find and I looked in every single jewellers anywhere we went either here or in France that we happened to walk past for 6 or 7 years.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

It's the size of 'watches that do stuff' that I hate. I now have a gold watch - a gold Longines ladies one that's still a tad big for me cos it's 3.5 cm from where the bracelet starts to bend across the face to the other side at the same point. Widthways the dial is 2.5cm ie 1 inch or a tad less. It was the smallest one I could find and I looked in every single jewellers anywhere we went either here or in France that we happened to walk past for 6 or 7 years.

I know what you mean TW, many men’s watches are the size of manhole covers!

 

[trophywench]

When your wrists and ankles are like a sparrow's, and the sparrow has been malnourished for all it's life - it gets silly. An awful lot of watch faces without the straps, are actually wider than the backs of my wrists!

No 1 husband used to treat himself to a new Swatch fairly often - black face, luminous hands and figures, date, plastic strap, waterproof enough for swimming and a bit of snorkelling and waterskiing, fairly flat to the wrist so as good with a suit or DJ as a boiler suit whilst welding inside a (new!) tanker for emptying road drains or night soil containers when he demoted the previous one to wear at work - what was not to like for under £20 apiece? anyway even the old watch straps couldn't go tight enough on my twigs to even GO flat!

 

[trophywench]

By the way - modern man hole covers aren't made out of thick half a ton cast iron with half inch studs sticking up by drop forgers any more - proper flimsy cast aluminium things that I can lift and move, a lot of the time! Pathetic. We discovered this before we moved in here and the rubble skip was half on half off the one above the sewer pipe for at least 4 houses, in the middle of our drive ........