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There’s a startup named Movano Health trying to build a glucose monitor sensor chip that uses RF energy: https://www.wareable.com/wearable-tech/movano-ceo-on-i

by pavlov 4y ago

There’s a startup named Movano Health trying to build a glucose monitor sensor chip that uses RF energy: https://www.wareable.com/wearable-tech/movano-ceo-on-its-rf-glucose-sensor-8895 https://www.wareable.com/wearable-tech/movano-ceo-on-its-rf-... Movano plans to ship an Oura-style smart ring this year, but it won’t have the glucose monitor. (One might suspect the “moonshot” glucose RF chip story is meant to keep investors excited through the zero-revenue stage until hopefully the more ordinary smart ring takes off.)

onepointsixC 4y ago
The chance that a ring form factor wearable will be the first to reliably, non invasively measure glucose is zero. Yes they got SpO2 and HR, those are easy and well established technologies. But blood glucose? Forget it. A ring form factor is too aggressive and difficult of a target.