[surfrider]

Whatever. HN may appreciate that there is a small force of nature callled #WeAreNotWaiting comprised of diabetic engineers and more that is tired of waiting for innovation to help manage the EVERYDAY in the life with out a pancreas.

[BlakePetersen]

Come on now. This shouldn't be dismissed as trivial. The most critical component of Nightscout (#WeAreNotWaiting's OSS) is continuous glucose monitoring. THIS provides THAT. And all by (what sounds like) wearing an Apple Watch 3 or 4.

Right now I have to drive a 1.5 inch needle into my gut every time I need to swap out my subcutaneous sensor, which is 1/week. These sensors are made of platinum and other precious metals and are expensive, especially without insurance. Plus, you have a lil nub sticking off your body, not the worse thing but it can get caught in door frames and what not.

I'm wearing an Apple Watch right now that shows my glucose readings (217 --> for the other T1Ds ;]). If I could remove the sensor from the equation, maybe even be liberated from my iPhone every now and again, it would ease dealing with my condition a good amount.

Simply put, one needs to monitor glucose passively to allow for the closed loop artificial pancreas these guys are working towards. This technology would make that monitoring so much easier, cheaper, more efficient and less wasteful.

[arafa]

Some of those folks have even automated blood sugar detection and insulin management, creating basically an artificial pancreas. It's pretty cool (open source) software if people want to learn more, called Nightwatch.

[dmix]

Can you expand on what you mean by this? Is it an open source project or community?