wavLength: August 14, 2007 Archive

In an update to a story I reported on Future Tense back in April, a design firm has answered a blogger's challenge to design less bulky, more attractive and better-working glucose monitors and insulin pumps for the country's 20 million diabetics.

Earlier this year, the author of the blog DiabetesMine.com posted an open letter to Apple's Steve Jobs, urging him to create a medical device as cool as the iPod. Apple never responded, but design firm Adaptive Path ran with the idea. It's created a proof-of-concept design for a device it calls the Charmr.