Apple could be working on an iWatch, non -invasive meter and the reasons c8medisensors

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As you all know, we are in the 'Mine have been pressing for more "Apple Sque" medical devices for more than five years - with 2,007 "of Amy letter open to Steve Jobs" go viral and starting a national campaign of type.

So it was very exciting news when we learned the reports that Apple is finally moving in this address: the exploration of the idea of ​​a new tracy -ish Dick GadgetOn the wrist - possibly including glucose monitoring!

Apple iWatch sketch
Image: Via Apple Insider

The reports say that the state of the presentation of Apple of patents and brand requests in countries such as Japan, Mexico, Russia and Taiwan, and all have different names and designs for the possible iWatch - such as the "infinite loop" bracelet.In a patent application, registered trademark, the portable wrist clock device looks like a palm clock, described as a "bi-stable spring" design on the clock strap would be automatically curved perfectly at any size of the size of thedoll and ends overlap.The screen itself would be flexible, and a part of it could be covered by the overlap and automatically turns off.The device screen would have a "touch user interface," compared to traditional buttons used in existing smart watches.

At this time, these are only rumors of what the iWatch may seem.If you are looking for Google, you will find a lot of speculations and hundreds of possible models, with imagination to run wildly ... as usual, Apple is not talking yet and did not return the calls.

But with the idea of ​​including non -invasive glucose monitoring, this concept is almost felt as a contemporary remodeling of the extinct Glucowatch.Remember that the device that Animas bought years ago and was interrupted in 2007, after showing poor results and the unfortunate ardor effect on patients' skin?And also the frustrated Glucoband, who never reached the market?

However, a Redux by Apple who really works ... the great would be?!

Hook the experience

The media the reports that the hired Apple scientists and executives of a handful of sensor developers in recent months - showing the technology expert corporation aims to follow up on health.

C8 Medisensors CGM

And the wave of new hiring includes a group of people from the now extinct Diabetes Company in California known as Medisensors C8, which implored in February - less than a year after having received European approval for its non -invasive, CGMOptics (continuous glucose monitoring) Technology!He wrote about them in 2011 and had great hope ... and we can't stop asking why Apple could point to a company whose failed D-Q technology?

In a telephone interview, the former C8 Medisensors technology director Rudy Hofmeister - which was largelyissues related to the consistency of data readings.

"From a technological point of view, what we had done with this was a stellar achievement that people think, even (what we have achieved) went beyond the possibility. But the problem was that the performance wasMarginal, and ... that was light years from where it had to be for a product."

- The former C8 Medisensors CEO Rudy Hofmeister, why not invasive the Gluocse monitoring company imploded

A series of changes in management at the end of last year and in 2013 led to indecision about where the company would go with technology, and ultimately led to its dissolution in February, Hofmeister said.The company seems to have been reconstituted in California as Redox Biomedical and is studying a high sale that includes intellectual property rights about its non -invasive technology, he said.Therefore it seems that there is value, however, in what they developed.

Apple apparently, he had been considering the acquisition of c8 medisensors in front of all internal agitation exploded, and when the dissolution of Apple occurred, he pounced several engineers, designers and scientists specialized in the form of artificial intelligence that interprets the health dataand doctors.

So maybe it could only be a matter of time before we see some portable Apple technology that includes non -invasive glucose monitoring ... even if it only shows data of a blood sugar monitoring application or meter device.

Conceptually cool ... but is the diabetes really a focus?

However, if the reports are true, Apple's interest is not specific to diabetes or glucose control ... the company also hired people before companies such as accuvein and senseonics and others that focus on sensors for sensorsmonitor veins, sleep patterns, and other aspects of health that could biometry (digital footprints).

Smartwatch devices
Sony Smartwatch and see the electronic paper Pebble

Portable technology is fashionable these days, and is booming, thanks to cheap sensors that can be used to follow up things such as movement and heart rate.The number of portable fitness products has been growing at a fast pace, but an Apple offering could shake the industry completely.

Apple CEO, Tim Cook insists that a bracelet product is a key goal for the company on the road, and it may very well be what focus on their portable technology debut.Many know that Cook is also a member of the Nike Board of Directors and is not ashamed to praise the focused gymnasium that leads.And other Apple executives have seen themselves with that device, too.Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that Apple was looking for a product at the debut at the end of 2013, but a recent report The sample analyst may be more like a Late-2014 version.Yes still ...

But how realistic is this called IWatch, and that actually includes data on diabetes or BG monitoring?

Not everyone is convinced.

The former C8 Medisensors CTO thinks that a focus on general health and physical condition is more feasible now than going to the medical market, especially since the FDA is still uncertain about how Mhealth products will approach.Until that is resolved, he does not see any IWatch or portable technology in monitoring blood sugar or medical data.

"Measurement of glucose for diabetes is a difficult thing to do, and bit more than it could ultimately handle," he said about Medisensors C8."Until the theme of the laboratory to reality is resolved, we will not be receiving similar products from any person."

FELLOW PWD David Kliff More in Diabetic Investor warns people, especially people with disabilities, not to "fall into the trap" of thinking about the IWatch concept with an aspect of glucose-monitoring is anywhere.Points out thatNo non -invasive technology has worked without millions of dollars have been spent, and that the FDA is not prepared for this moment, but the regulatory path would have to be approved first.Everything goes back to the "non -invasive dream" that Kliff has been critical of the years, and that he is concerned that Apple Iwatch's news could be emboldened to other companies and small new companies to continue feeding that "mirage."

The most serious doubts

We also ask for thoughts from Sonny VU, former Agamatrix President and Co-founder, who went on to found his own portable technology company called Wearables Misfit.Sonny said that there has not really been any independent verification of any iWatch or what it could include, but even if the rumors are true of development, reality-checsigue being skeptical.Although it would be great to see something like Dexcom CGM data are shown on a touchpad watch screen, VU does not believe that it is yet to come in the short term because the FDA is so hesitant and even Apple has been reluctant to enter the scope of theHealth products - Despite its slow moves in that direction with integrations such as Agamatrx -Creado Sanofi Ibgstar meters.

"I have serious doubts that Apple gets into glucose control, especially non -invasive way," he wrote in an email."It doesn't really work and has not worked during the last several generations of science - that all the way back in the late 60s, probably 200 + not newly created in space."

Even Dexcom Ceo Terry Gregg at the CGM manufacturing end of the spectrum has the same concerns and precautions.His argument: the search for designers and money investment is a face of the currency, but it is totally different from being able to produce a high quality sensor that really works.Until that happens, no amount of money or prestige will get one of these concepts on the market alone.

So, in summary?

We may not be receiving the Dick Tracy Iglucose intelligent watches in the short term, but surely as the hell will be interesting to see that Apple goes with this development and what the next generation of idevices (which covers diabetes?) Will it look like this.

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PUF ... difficult to translate the text is.CONCLUSIONS We cannot yet, what teacher Yoda would say.
They seem to me at the moment rumors (which have been with the famous iWatch) for some time.We will have to wait to see what happens.But of course, Molar would, as the kids say with that phrase as famous as stupid ...

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Very difficult I see that Apple wants to put in the "prenao" of monitonizing glucose.Non -invasive technologies are not expected to have the experience of result and the precision that provides blood control, at least in the coming years.
Apart from that it is not something that the general public needs.Instead, the sports monitoring issue, I think anyone may be interested.I think they can hit more.
Hopefully I am wrong and moniteren the glucose, but I fear that it will not be so.

Greetings!

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I see it more as a positioning for a future patent.

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