Glucose Monitoring Earring
Still in the r&d realm, this piece describes a wearable jewelry that monitors blood sugar levels. “The idea is to have the earring pierce the earlobe and pulse high-frequency radio waves through the surrounding tissue as a way of measuring blood sugar levels. In this way, the earring wouldn’t require constant samples and can deliver real-time readings on blood sugar via a smartphone app. The device would run on rechargeable batteries. . . . . This is similar in a way to the idea of using smartphone cameras to measure blood-sugar levels, which instead rely on light shone onto the tissue to pick up on blood volume changes. This technique has been demonstrated in pigs, where changes in signal transmission correlated with spikes in glucose, and is being investigated by different research groups, but is not yet proven in humans.” MORE
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