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<blockquote data-quote="kitedoc" data-source="post: 2013742" data-attributes="member: 468714"><p>HI [USER=493279]@AK2018[/USER], No visual troubles personally but I thought Apple was looking at making a BSL monitor worn like a watch.</p><p>Presumably the 'reading' was done through the skin. Linked to a talking app such a device might overcome a number of problems.</p><p>There was work going on with using one's tears to measure glucose levels, but not as practical for someone who is blind.</p><p>There are already skin patches being developed to deliver medication through the skin - via a number of very fine needles in the patch. Could the process be reversed with the needles reading the fluid under the skin a bit like the Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) currently in use. A scanner is placed over the patch to read off the result and rendered into an audio signal?</p><p>The blind person or the carer take off one 'ouchy' skin patch after x days and replace it. Shaving of hair etc would be needed.</p><p>You could have a device which fits over a finger, a bit like the oxygen monitor finger device used in hospitals but orientated so that a finger prick sampling could be done, and read and transferred to an audio signal. The device could be handled by a blind person and result obtained??</p><p>Just some off the top of head thoughts.</p><p>Best Wishes with your project !!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kitedoc, post: 2013742, member: 468714"] HI [USER=493279]@AK2018[/USER], No visual troubles personally but I thought Apple was looking at making a BSL monitor worn like a watch. Presumably the 'reading' was done through the skin. Linked to a talking app such a device might overcome a number of problems. There was work going on with using one's tears to measure glucose levels, but not as practical for someone who is blind. There are already skin patches being developed to deliver medication through the skin - via a number of very fine needles in the patch. Could the process be reversed with the needles reading the fluid under the skin a bit like the Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) currently in use. A scanner is placed over the patch to read off the result and rendered into an audio signal? The blind person or the carer take off one 'ouchy' skin patch after x days and replace it. Shaving of hair etc would be needed. You could have a device which fits over a finger, a bit like the oxygen monitor finger device used in hospitals but orientated so that a finger prick sampling could be done, and read and transferred to an audio signal. The device could be handled by a blind person and result obtained?? Just some off the top of head thoughts. Best Wishes with your project !! [/QUOTE]
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