[regeland]

A IV drip regulator "changes how medical devices are made?" Hardly an example to compete with pacemakers, stimulators, orthopedic implants, biologics, endovascular devices, laproscopic surgery, electromagnetic navigation, CT and MRI scanners, etc. Bit of an oversimplification (not uncommon for "Fortune") I might suggest.

[sdrothrock]

The claim isn't that the drip regulator changes how medical devices are made, but that the company wants to change how medical devices are made -- that is, it wants to make them affordable and accessible for countries that don't have access to them.

Even the original headline ("Startup Shift Labs wants to change how medical devices are made") doesn't make the claim that the drip regulator is revolutionary or will change how devices are made.

Also, a relevant quote, italics mine:

> The primary market for DripAssist, however, isn’t U.S. hospitals, where nearly every bed has its own IV infusion pump. “If you think worldwide about the number of infusions that are done every day,” says Kolko, “The vast majority of them are done without a pump and that’s the market we’re targeting.”

[dang]

Ok, but that doesn't make what they are doing insignificant, and it seems a bit unfair to only react to the excesses of yet another euphoric headline when maybe there's a real incremental advance here to talk about.

Edit: We changed the title to a more representative sentence from the article.