I'm a type 1 diabetic and I've been waiting for this. I'm not a big fan of watches but having a wrist mounted snippet of the email/Slack/text that I just received has been enticing, but not worth the 1 day charge time of the iWatch.<p>But even if the glucose testing function is somewhat above mediocre AND integrates well with a journal app of my ups and downs, I'm sold. No questions, line me up for a too-expensive band, the charging station, etc.
Best of luck to them, noninvasive glucose monitoring is not something that has had a lack of attempts: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor</a><p>But just because it might be a tough nut to crack, it isn't necessarily impossible. Interested to see how it develops.
Yesterday my Healbe GoBe 2 healthband arrived, it has an array of non-invasive sensors which values can be used to take a good guess at how much calories are burned from carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Each time you eat you have to push a button.
<a href="https://www.techwalla.com/12049437/healbe-gobe-2-is-a-fitness-band-that-knows-what-youve-eaten-review" rel="nofollow">https://www.techwalla.com/12049437/healbe-gobe-2-is-a-fitnes...</a>
Most of the scientific breakthrough were preceded by improvement of measure instruments. IMHO a constant monitoring of some health indicators of many people good give invaluable data for researchers.
Grew up in a household with an adult-onset type-1 diabetic whom had little remaining biological control, either high or low:<p>Interstitial monitoring has been "around the corner" for 30 years.<p>Let's hope some shop can deliver a reasonably-priced, accurate-enough interstitial or tiny implantable device that can replace daily/routine blood sampling.
Is anyone else doing good quality home-testing/monitoring devices for other metrics? I occasionally look around for e.g. cholesterol and find that home kits are not thoroughly reviewed or unreliable if reviewed more thoroughly. In addition, they often miss important values or are considered painful/awkward to use. You could think of a few other metrics you might want to collect at home (say, kidney/liver function), and urine sticks seem the best option right now.<p>For blood glucose the problem seems more-or-less solved at a basic level (I've tried an Aviva Nano, seems pretty good) due to diabetic demand. I'm sure integration and further improvements are possible but I personally would like to see more frequent monitoring of more metrics.
Whatever.
HN may appreciate that there is a small force of nature callled #WeAreNotWaiting comprised of diabetic engineers and more that is tired of waiting for innovation to help manage the EVERYDAY in the life with out a pancreas.
I saw a presentation at Stanford around 2000 of the science and engineering behind a watch-like device that would measure glucose levels in the interstitial fluid extracted from the skin with an electric zap. I think it is the GlucoWatch, which seems not to have worked out well in practice.
<a href="http://www.mendosa.com/glucowatch.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.mendosa.com/glucowatch.htm</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Inc" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Inc</a>
One would hope this would also lead to better data on things like diabetes. From what I have read, we really don't understand it as well as a lot of people seem to think. It would be nice to have more comprehensive data sets so we can figure out better treatment modalities.
The holy grail for treating diabetes is not a continuous glucose monitor -- not even a noninvasive one. The holy grail for treating diabetes is regulating the immune system so that it doesn't attack beta cells.
These guys from Israel have a very promising approach: <a href="https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/fulltext.cfm?uri=boe-5-6-1926&id=286417" rel="nofollow">https://www.osapublishing.org/boe/fulltext.cfm?uri=boe-5-6-1...</a><p>Is someone else in here besides me working on self-made tracking tools for logging your metrics beyond glucose? Would love to chat!
Stupid me thinks that if they can measure data that is even indirectly related to blood glucose with sufficient quantity they can actually infer glucose level with quite accuracy. I.e. only with measuring heart beat, oxygen and co2 level at the skin, temperature and time of the day, and sufficient data crunching they can actually know the glucose levels.
Measuring glucose makes little sense, no matter how precisely and non-invasively it is done. Physiologically speaking is glucose part of the solution in people with impaired insulin function, not the problem.
This is fantastic. The Helo LX is a device already ahead of Apple's Engineers. You can find the Helo LX at <a href="http://Farmer.Helo.Life" rel="nofollow">http://Farmer.Helo.Life</a><p>look into who Antonio De Rosa is. In short, he is our chief designer and he was on that Apple iWatch team in 2010. We are ahead of Apple on this one. Those sensors exist today and guess who has them?! But this is great, Apple has a much bigger marketing budget than we do.
Amazing the lengths our society will go to cling to our hedonism, even when it's killing us. We should be doing more with dietary solutions, not this.