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by grishka 1977 days ago
I love how there are exactly zero technical details on the website about how this Basis thing works and what it is. It's chock-full of marketing copy and unnecessary animations instead. But from the early access form I can gather that it's going to have a monthly subscription (of course, it's 2021 after all) and probably need proprietary consumables.
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What would you like to know?
What the device is and how it works.
Basis as a system works with multiple passive, continuous inputs. The goal is to help you track your health without thinking about tracking your health - where many people fail. So to use Basis today (get the minimum benefit) you would need to use a glucose tracking biosensor (that we provide) and have an activity tracking wearable (e.g. Apple Watch, Oura ring, etc). It’s possible to use Basis with your own continuous glucose sensor (if you are diabetic let’s say) and already get those regularly. Depending on the peripherals/wearables you have you could also feed your water intake and temperature in the data as well.
> you would need to use a glucose tracking biosensor (that we provide)

It is an "Abbott's Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor"[1] or a different sensor ?

[1] https://www.libresense.abbott/en/home.html