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Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by gwern on Thursday March 08, 2012 @04:30PM (#3681748)
> That form of automation doesn't exist for many types of data people would like to collect, such as food intake, or blood sugar testing for diabetics.

When I was looking into it, I noticed that a lot of the blood sugar testers were electronic and could record the series of readings for you. You still had to prick yourself, but it looked pretty easy.

(Sadly, the one non-invasive blood sugar recording device I found was apparently discontinued for causing electrical burns.)

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Re:Learning from 20 years of personal analytics by dgallagher on Thursday March 08, 2012 @06:27PM (#3682217)
It probably wouldn't be too tough to make an arm-band device which periodically pricks you, possibly beeping a few seconds before it happens. I'm not sure when diabetics need to calculate glucose levels, if it's either after each meal, or periodically throughout the day.
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