I find these type of inventions so exciting, taking a consumer device and modifying it for medical purposes. We need more of this type of innovative thinking in

I find these type of inventions so exciting, taking a consumer device and modifying it for medical purposes. We need more of this type of innovative thinking in the medical field. I used to work in medical and biotech device development. There are very much two sides to the the development of a medical device, the scientific development and the commercial device. Far to regularly when I was working in the field (particularly diagnostics) researchers would see some positive early results, get some VC money and jump straight in to developing a snazzy device to do it before completely validating their science. They would get distracted by wanting to make a handheld touch screen thing, or a beautifully styled bench top device. In the 7 years I worked in medical/biotech development only a small portion of the projects I worked on made it to market and then to success. The ones that did, properly validated their science early in the process and kept thing simple and inexpensive.