This is so awesome. A concerned dad inadvertently led to the creation of a bionic pancreas. At-home human augmentation... who would thought you could do that right!? ;) Costik wanted the monitor to send its data not only to the little display unit, but also to the cloud, where he could check it from his computer. He started tinkering. The result? A solution that seems so simple it’s crazy it didn’t already exist: an Android app that let him monitor Evan’s blood sugar on a phone. It was kludgy and only he could use it, but it worked. So if Evan was at soccer running around, John could be in the bleachers (or at home) watching glucose levels rise and fall on his smartphone. If they jigged out of range, Costik or his wife could take action. Costik tweeted a screen shot of his phone displaying Evan’s glucose level. He had no idea that by doing so, he was about to incite a mini-revolution among thousands of other parents who wanted to see their kids’ glucose levels on their phones. And it cracked open the door for another, somewhat more controversial, breakthrough: a home-grown automatic system—a bionic pancreas
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 01:43:37 +0000
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