Just read about this, sounds interesting to say the least…http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/19/glucose-sensor-skin-implant-glows-when-blood-sugar-spikes/
Sounds like a neat experiment, but a glow doesn’t mean a whole lot. It reminds me of the old Chemstrip BG test strips that I had to hold next to the color-chart on the vial to determine my BG level. Without a color-chart or a calibration means (which may be needed based on what I’ve learned from CGM technology), I think this is more valuable in terms of a “wow factor” than as an actual, useful, tool to add to our diabetes bag of tricks.
Doesn’t sound like it’s ready yet, but maybe it’s like the old $250 glucometers were in the early 1980s. A peek into the future!
I don’t think that there will ever be anything like this that will really be of any real use to the diabetic community but it is a step in the right direction. This is just showing that research is working and this will only lead to other ideas and inventions that will make our lives that much easier. It is a neat idea though however impractical.
Perhaps, but I envision the “lighting up” as a purely chemical reaction between the interstitial glucose and an agent in the implant. To add electronics and radio transmission capabilities would result in the same CGM we have now.