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LG KP8400 cellphone with blood tester for diabetics |
axxxr
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In an unusual, but sensible, marriage of technologies, LG has released the KP8400 cellphone that doubles as a blood test for diabetics. The phone includes a tester into which users can place a blood test drop on a strip, place the strip in a special reader on the phone (located near the phone’s battery pack), and get insulin and blood readings on the phone display. Readings can then be uploaded to an online database for retrieval later on. Because of the added technology the rest of the phone isn’t anything to write home about, but it’s more than sufficient: 262k color TFT display, CIF camera, and 64 voice polyphonic sound.
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masseur
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 I know we have converging technologies but...!
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Can it detect - AIDS too  It won't be long . . . |
axxxr
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On 2004-10-08 16:48:16, JN wrote:
Can it detect - AIDS too It won't be long . . .
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Yeh I think that a handset that can check for STD's will be much more popular! 
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methylated_spirit
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My friends dad is a diabetic, and he uses a phone...Ideal! Its a good looking phone, too.
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Lynx69
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What about a phone for girls with a pregnancy tester?!
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masseur
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...or cholestrol tester
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skaroger867
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personally i think thats to far for a phone. pictures/videos, internet, mp3's, 3d games,and hopefully tv (in more phones) i can understand as for entertainment purpses that appel to a wide variety of people. this phone only appeals to one group of people. to them its probably very useful, but it seems pointless to me. |
absinthebri
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I think it's good to see a phone with a secondary "useful" function rather than just an "entertainment" device.
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adept1
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I bet there's more mobile phone users with diabetes than mobile phone users who want to surf a crippled web on a 2" screen!
Where I live (Singapore) 9% of the adult population has diabetes and 9 out of 10 people own a mobile phone.
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axxxr
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On 2004-10-08 16:36:19, masseur wrote:
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Speaking of converging technologies.....This one is off topic but you now get a blood glucose meter that can be directly inserted into a Nintendo GAMEBOY.
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GLUCOBOY
Guidance Interactive Healthcare has developed a suite of interactive medical devices and systems that help the patient and other concerned members of the healthcare achieve higher levels of compliance; that ultimately results in better quality of life for all concerned. Our flagship product, GLUCOBOY is a children's blood glucose meter that can be directly inserted into a Nintendo GAMEBOY. It that combines interactivity, motivation, and information delivery into every blood glucose test. |
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The well-being fad has found its way into the cellular phone market. Handsets providing various sorts of health care functions such as measuring fat layers and blood-sugar level are being released one by one. Samsung Electronics presented a brand-new cellular phone last week, the SPH-E3330, which can measure one’s fat level. After entering one’s name, weight, and height, a slight touch of the finger on the measuring device displays one’s body fat level. The measured data can be estimated by daily, weekly, and monthly units in a graphical chart. The handset could be bought for around W450,000.
The so-called diabetes hand set released by LG Electronics back in July, the LG-KP8400, has won steady popularity. This handset, equipped to measure blood-sugar levels, not only manages blood-sugar level, diet, and medication prescriptions, but also provides long-distance medical consultations. Placing a litmus paper stained with one’s blood on the device shows one’s blood-sugar level. They also plan to release a "stress phone" that informs one of his or her stress level by checking their heart rates by early next year.
Recently, the Silver-nano handsets, which are thinly coated with silver, have won much popularity. Silver-nano technology is the mixing of raw materials with silver mixed in at the nano meter level (one-billionth of a meter). It is effective for preventing the spread of germs as well as sterilization and deodorization. SK Teletech released its IM-7700 cellular phone with Silver-nano technology for the first time back in September, resulting in nearly 100,000 sales in only two months. With a built-in mega pixel digital camera, it can store pictures and MP3 music files up to a 1000 mega-bytes. Samsung also put on the market last month a Silver-nano handset the SCH-S140, coated with silver.
“Normally, there are about 25,000 germs on one cellular phone,” said a researcher at SK, adding, “Research shows that if you were to cultivate germs on a normal handset, 70 to 80 percent of them would remain even after a 24 hours, but 99.9 percent of germs disappear on a Silver-nano handset within only three hours.”
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