It's interesting when consumer electronics are creatively repurposed for other uses. For a while, there were barcode scanners that attached to iPAQs. Eventually, Symbol and similar got hip and made their own PDA/smart scanners.
And I guess no one else reads original source material because Bayer's product was named "Didget" not "Digit".
I love it!
Maintaining good steady levels on MDI and interstitial glucose monitoring does indeed sometimes feel like playing flappy bird with massive lag.
I imagine being a developer on a project like this -- dreaming about the impact that my work might have on helping diabetic kids, working late, pouring that extra ounce of effort into the quality of my work to try and make the absolute best gameplay experience possible...
...and then to have it all wiped out in a corporate power move. I'm guessing that none of the actual gameplay or tooling was recycled out of the Glucoboy into the Bayer Digit?
I tend to get more attached to my work than I probably should, and it's always heartbreaking to read about these things.
When it launched, the Glucoboy was exclusive to Australia.
I wonder if something like this could've gotten approval from the FDA, given that a lot of medical devices do use off-the-shelf hardware like regular PCs, and a GBA is even more standardised in many ways.
Also, I noticed the appropriately-themed section headings of the article, although I did accidentally read the second one as "A Pancreas Arrives".
I'm on my phone so couldn't check it out, but adding `line-height: 1.2;` (or even 1.3) might help a lot with the readability of this otherwise interesting content.
And I guess no one else reads original source material because Bayer's product was named "Didget" not "Digit".