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Tuesday, September 3, 2002    permalink
No more stick-ups

Diabetics get sick of needles. Of course they do, they have to stick themselves to check their sugar levels, they have to stick themselves to deliver insulin. It's no fun.

Just in time for Generation Y ~ the dayglo low-sugar warning tattoo:

The tattoo has been designed Gerard Cote, of Texas A&M University, and Michael Pishko, of the chemical engineering department at Penn State University.

It is made of polyethylene glycol beads that are coated with fluorescent molecules.

Because glucose displaces the fluorescent molecules, the level of fluorescence is high when bodily glucose levels are low.

The only catch is that the tattoo has to be somewhere where the sun don't shine (too much, anyway).

I think we're going to see a lot more of this kind of integrated biofeedback technology.

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