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This doesn’t look like the breakthrough the headline suggests, at least for glucose monitoring. They created a material that contracts/expands depending on mea
by ricardobeat 3y ago
This doesn’t look like the breakthrough the headline suggests, at least for glucose monitoring.
They created a material that contracts/expands depending on measurement levels, and that can be detected by the magnetometer. But the sample needs to be deposited in it.
This is not a non-invasive glucose monitoring solution, and current under-skin devices will remain a lot more convenient.
A magnetometer costs $1-$5, plus a couple dollars for a microcontroller, what will likely happen is that this will result in a new breed of devices that offer laboratory precision at very low cost. The phone part is irrelevant.
- jfengel 3y agoOf all the things they described as possible, measuring glucose is the least interesting, since we already have a better tech for that. They have a number of other potential applications, and it's rather clever and surprising. They could have led with any of those.