Accu Chek Mobile

Right, this black beauty is the Accu-Chek Mobile. Again, this is quite an innovation in the world of blood testing. Many machines claim to be the all-in-one solution because when people talk about blood testing, people think about the meter.

Whereas, you nearly always have a pot of little strips, as well as a lancing device and in the lancing device you probably need a lancet as well. So, altogether there is quite a bit of clobber.

Now, this machine does have in it everything you could possibly need.

There's a few innovations with this machine. But, the main one, I would suggest is that there are no more pots of sensors - there is just a cassette. On the cassette, that has 50 tests on it (the capability of 50 tests). There is a tape. This goes in the back of the machine - I'll show you how it rolls around in a minute.

You only have to change the cassette every 50 tests - which is really handy. There's no pots, no strips to chuck away or insert. The finger pricker on the side is called the Fastclix. You've already got a drum on lancets in there.

You choose your delivery depth by twiddling that round and if you want to change the lancet you twist this around. But at the moment, it's actually primed. You might want to open the bottom - open the hatch as it were. You can hear and you can see the cassette spinning around. You can test any which way you want.

Pop the blood on the bottom and watch it as it does its bit. There's simply nothing else there - it's really great. 10.3mmol/L - not bad.

Inside it, there's other bits and bobs you can do - you can set flags and do things like that, but for the purpose of this demo I'll just show you how that works. You close it back off again and it shuts itself down. Bob's your uncle, that's that, done.