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Re:Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Trac... by pavlov on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:16PM (#34901973)
There’s a startup named Movano Health trying to build a glucose monitor sensor chip that uses RF energy:

https://www.wareable.com/wearable-tech/movano-ceo-on-its-rf-...

Movano plans to ship an Oura-style smart ring this year, but it won’t have the glucose monitor. (One might suspect the “moonshot” glucose RF chip story is meant to keep investors excited through the zero-revenue stage until hopefully the more ordinary smart ring takes off.)

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Re:Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Trac... by onepointsixC on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:18PM (#34917406)
The chance that a ring form factor wearable will be the first to reliably, non invasively measure glucose is zero. Yes they got SpO2 and HR, those are easy and well established technologies. But blood glucose? Forget it.

A ring form factor is too aggressive and difficult of a target.

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