June 9, 2010
The 'feed June 7th Edition is Up
In case you haven't seen it the DiabeticFeed is back and this weeks show is available at their site.
June 4, 2010
Didget III - To the Internet and Beyond
The ambition of the Didget is very impressive. Bayes has built a meter with a Nintendo component and an online community for kids. This, my third review of the Didget, looks at that internet component.
YDMV's other Didget bits can be found here:
Didget II
Kids need to connect the Didget to their computer to get to the community. This may help some build the habit of connecting and downloading. Good idea. Very clever.
Bayers Diabetes tag line is Simple Wins. They use a standard USB cable to connect. That is simple. Kudos to the design team for skipping over the proprietary connector.
Maybe the plug team should sit down with the software guys. It was anything but simple to connect and register to the site. First in my lack of caffeination I tried to use my Mac with FireFox and I couldn’t load the browser extension needed. Then I used my daughter’s PC. I was doing this early and clearly needed more coffee. Every time I missed a field on the sign up form it erased three others. It wanted a little more information than I really wanted to share like my kid’s date of birth (and the drop down didn’t go back prior to 2000 unless you pick 200 and then re-drop down.)
OK I did get signed up in due course but it wasn’t simple. Much of that seemed to be for security. That is great. Kids should be secure and part of that, IMHO, is asking less.
In time and in need of Starbucks, I got in.
There are a number of sections starting with a set up screen. You can see here it is looking for the Didget serial number, building the connect habit:
After signing up there is an arcade where you can buy more games with points earned primarily from testing and testing consistently over time.
The Arcade looks like this:
For everyone concerned about making value judgments on BS, blood sugar testing and testing at least four times a day, every day over time is how the vast majority of points are earned in the game.
Another tab is a mood Ring that kids can use to express their mood with a drop down and there is a lot of choices.
Themes some are free and some need points and I didn't capture the screen.
A Tiki Mask answer machine (aka magic 8 ball). Here I ask it why it doesn't like my Mac.
A game leader board which I don’t have a picture of because it had user names on it and I will not even show a made up name of someone else’s kid on the internet.
Carb Calculator: Pick food and servings and it estimates carbs. It looks like it uses carb exchanges. For the scale and count users it may not be accurate enough. I do like the idea of making carb counting accessible to kids and in the context of their world and for a lot of kids (Your Kid May Vary) games are their space.
Kids can ask other users to be friends. I didn’t test this because well I try not to be a creepy old guy talking to kids online and that how it would have felt asking of a friend. I couldn’t see any thing about other kids than their name and a button to request being friends. There didn't seem to be a lot of users yet.
When you sign in as a parent you see completely different stuff. One piece I was impressed to see was that considered that a parent may have more than one type 1 kid. As a parent you also get a menu screen and it looks like this:
From the parent menu we geezers can view logs and such, well that is if you have been using the meter and as I said in Didget II my kids found out the Didget strips fit the Contour USB and they have been fighting over that meter. This is what the screen looks like, you can imagine numbers:
Editorializing to follow:
My older kid doesn’t see the value in a diabetes only communities online. At least that was his response to some of the big advocacy groups sites. Diabetes isn’t the only thing about him or define him and he prefers to stay in touch with his type 1 friends with Facebook and text messages. (Most of these friends are from CWD’s Friends For Life gotta get that plug in. It is a great program.)
However just because my kids isn’t into the idea doesn’t mean other kids will feel the same. Other may like it a lot, and the target demo here is younger than most Facebook users and this is a way less public place. (You have to connect a meter to get in.) In fact the value of FFL (see plug in prior paragraph) is being around and connecting with other kids with type 1. I think the value of focused community is huge. I think communities work best when one size fits the size it fits. One site doesn't fit all. People connect from the state of mind that they are in and facilitating small communities makes that possible. Marketers call it niche marketing. I think it is more significant than marketing.
Back to the Didget and off my rant. I think this is a very significant product. It doesn't try to be the meter for everyone including your uncle with type 2. It take the idea of diabetes care and focuses on habits, specifically rewarding regular testing in the day, every day all month. The rewarding is in the context of a particular user community, kids. It maybe too old for some and too young for other and in that it is brilliant. It was made to fit one size not all.
The Didget is not a meter it is a system designed to promote the development of habits of care in kids. The system is the meter, the Nintendo game and the online components working together. Building a set of tools that are a kid focused system is brilliant.
I doubt we will be users. Our kids are part of the too old. Still I applaud the effort to bring management tools into kids' worlds. It is well conceived, focused and as such not for everyone, not even all kids. That is brilliant.
YDMV DIDGET posts:
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/05/bayer-didget-first-look.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-ii.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-iii-to-internet-and-beyond.html
YDMV's other Didget bits can be found here:
Didget II
Kids need to connect the Didget to their computer to get to the community. This may help some build the habit of connecting and downloading. Good idea. Very clever.
Bayers Diabetes tag line is Simple Wins. They use a standard USB cable to connect. That is simple. Kudos to the design team for skipping over the proprietary connector.
Maybe the plug team should sit down with the software guys. It was anything but simple to connect and register to the site. First in my lack of caffeination I tried to use my Mac with FireFox and I couldn’t load the browser extension needed. Then I used my daughter’s PC. I was doing this early and clearly needed more coffee. Every time I missed a field on the sign up form it erased three others. It wanted a little more information than I really wanted to share like my kid’s date of birth (and the drop down didn’t go back prior to 2000 unless you pick 200 and then re-drop down.)
OK I did get signed up in due course but it wasn’t simple. Much of that seemed to be for security. That is great. Kids should be secure and part of that, IMHO, is asking less.
In time and in need of Starbucks, I got in.
There are a number of sections starting with a set up screen. You can see here it is looking for the Didget serial number, building the connect habit:
After signing up there is an arcade where you can buy more games with points earned primarily from testing and testing consistently over time.
The Arcade looks like this:
For everyone concerned about making value judgments on BS, blood sugar testing and testing at least four times a day, every day over time is how the vast majority of points are earned in the game.
Another tab is a mood Ring that kids can use to express their mood with a drop down and there is a lot of choices.
Themes some are free and some need points and I didn't capture the screen.
A Tiki Mask answer machine (aka magic 8 ball). Here I ask it why it doesn't like my Mac.
A game leader board which I don’t have a picture of because it had user names on it and I will not even show a made up name of someone else’s kid on the internet.
Carb Calculator: Pick food and servings and it estimates carbs. It looks like it uses carb exchanges. For the scale and count users it may not be accurate enough. I do like the idea of making carb counting accessible to kids and in the context of their world and for a lot of kids (Your Kid May Vary) games are their space.
Kids can ask other users to be friends. I didn’t test this because well I try not to be a creepy old guy talking to kids online and that how it would have felt asking of a friend. I couldn’t see any thing about other kids than their name and a button to request being friends. There didn't seem to be a lot of users yet.
When you sign in as a parent you see completely different stuff. One piece I was impressed to see was that considered that a parent may have more than one type 1 kid. As a parent you also get a menu screen and it looks like this:
Editorializing to follow:
My older kid doesn’t see the value in a diabetes only communities online. At least that was his response to some of the big advocacy groups sites. Diabetes isn’t the only thing about him or define him and he prefers to stay in touch with his type 1 friends with Facebook and text messages. (Most of these friends are from CWD’s Friends For Life gotta get that plug in. It is a great program.)
However just because my kids isn’t into the idea doesn’t mean other kids will feel the same. Other may like it a lot, and the target demo here is younger than most Facebook users and this is a way less public place. (You have to connect a meter to get in.) In fact the value of FFL (see plug in prior paragraph) is being around and connecting with other kids with type 1. I think the value of focused community is huge. I think communities work best when one size fits the size it fits. One site doesn't fit all. People connect from the state of mind that they are in and facilitating small communities makes that possible. Marketers call it niche marketing. I think it is more significant than marketing.
Let me digress a bit here and talk right into the camera at Bayer.
Dudes (and I mean that in a non-gender specific way) - suck it up and get back to FFL. I don’t know why you stopped coming. I can guess but I don’t care why. In the words of the Beatles, “Get back to where you once belonged.” I miss your presence and I know others do to. You have some seriously strong products and families with diabetes need to see them. Rejoin the community there.
Back to the Didget and off my rant. I think this is a very significant product. It doesn't try to be the meter for everyone including your uncle with type 2. It take the idea of diabetes care and focuses on habits, specifically rewarding regular testing in the day, every day all month. The rewarding is in the context of a particular user community, kids. It maybe too old for some and too young for other and in that it is brilliant. It was made to fit one size not all.
The Didget is not a meter it is a system designed to promote the development of habits of care in kids. The system is the meter, the Nintendo game and the online components working together. Building a set of tools that are a kid focused system is brilliant.
I doubt we will be users. Our kids are part of the too old. Still I applaud the effort to bring management tools into kids' worlds. It is well conceived, focused and as such not for everyone, not even all kids. That is brilliant.
YDMV DIDGET posts:
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/05/bayer-didget-first-look.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-ii.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-iii-to-internet-and-beyond.html
June 3, 2010
Another Cake or Two
My nephew just graduated from high school. For the last two years he was a dorm student and regular dinner guest. He and his roommate would come down for an upgraded over the dining hall. They both were lasagna fans and we would make huge batches of the stuff.
If one couldn’t make it down the other came and took back a take out box. It was a running gag that who ever came down for dinner ate the box as soon as he got back to the dorm and taunted they guy who couldn’t make it.
That is how guys are. It's simple. It works. We think it is hysterical.
For graduation we had a family lunch for my nephew and made him a cake that looked a lot like something else.
We made his roommate his own put it in a takeout box. We handed it off at graduation to the roommate. If we hadn’t I figure my nephew would have eaten it too just out of tradition.
If one couldn’t make it down the other came and took back a take out box. It was a running gag that who ever came down for dinner ate the box as soon as he got back to the dorm and taunted they guy who couldn’t make it.
That is how guys are. It's simple. It works. We think it is hysterical.
For graduation we had a family lunch for my nephew and made him a cake that looked a lot like something else.
We made his roommate his own put it in a takeout box. We handed it off at graduation to the roommate. If we hadn’t I figure my nephew would have eaten it too just out of tradition.
June 2, 2010
Didget II
We have had the Didget rattling about the house for a while and I haven’t done much with it.
By design.
I opened it up read over the literature and handed it (the meter not the literature) over to Delaney. We laughed at the manual (Particularly the right side up part - Good Friend of the Blog Lorraine explains why in her review of the Didget) and then we watched Top Gear because that is what we do. After the Botswana Special, she played the game and announced it was a lot like Pokemon.
This information meant very little to me. What I know of Pokemon is the sum total this; before blood test strips, there were Pokemon cards all over the house. In fact for all I know there may still be Pokemon cards under the carpet of used strip we call the floor.
Anyway, I intentionally didn’t interact with Delaney as she used the Didget. I was curious to see what her reaction would be.
I think I should preface this next bit with - she is a few days from being a teen. I suspect that she is older than the target market for this meter-game combination.
After the initial, “It is cool!” her comment was, “It is huge.”
It is. Maybe not large enough to have it’s own moon orbiting it but I think it’s gravitational pull effects the tides.
I found it very interesting that when she discovered that the strips worked in the Contour USB she started testing with the USB. Then Connor stuck it in his pocket. Some where in this the Didget fell off the coffee table in the living room and nobody picked it up for a few days where it risked being layered into a geological strata with the strips and Pokemon cards.
My first test was this: Will the Didget hold the interest of an almost teenaged kid in my house?
No.
I think my baby daughter is too old and so experienced with meters that the game and the large meter form factor do not work for her.
So I poked around (get it poked around, diabetes, Pokemon?!? I kill myself with this stuff! - Ok ok you want to kill me too, I’ll knock it off.) I think there is a very distinct market for this thing. Connor was diagnosed at 9. Delaney at 7. We charted and used stickers as rewards for their testing the number of times they were meant to and all kinds of happy smoke blowing stuff like that. Still sticking sharp steel in their fingers got old before it became a habit.
This meter would have been crazy useful in helping build those habits and making the whole crappy newly diagnosed experience a little better - a little more of their world and less of the medical industrial complex's world.
A little then is a lot.
I am way in favor ever little bit.
With that big picture said, time fo I wish that some of the game / bonus parameters were user definable. As in Your Diabetes May Vary so how you would like to use the game interface to reinforce care behaviors may vary too. Specifically I would like to have control over the target of 4 test per day to reach the bonus points. I would make the magic number a little higher. Say test before each meal two snacks and bedtime for the grand total of 6. Yeah that is a little nit picky but what the heck I am meant pick nits aren’t I?
From what I have read there are other aspects of the Didget ecosystem (stole that ecosystem phrase from Continua) that I hope to investigate in future post.
Until then I am a fan of what the Didget is trying to do. Specifically demystify the freaking meter, make it common and accessible and encouraging kids to make care behaviors habits in their world.
I am fascinated but not suppressed by my kids’ using the Didget strip in the Contour USB and their little turf war over it. Bayer has stepped up their game in meter design. I love the creativity and kid appeal of the Didget and the adult sophistication of the Contour USB. Good design rocks!
I believe in options and markets that deliver choices to consumers.
If Your Diabetes May Vary so should the tools used to manage it.
Kudos to Bayer for getting that.
YDMV DIDGET posts:
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/05/bayer-didget-first-look.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-ii.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-iii-to-internet-and-beyond.html
By design.
I opened it up read over the literature and handed it (the meter not the literature) over to Delaney. We laughed at the manual (Particularly the right side up part - Good Friend of the Blog Lorraine explains why in her review of the Didget) and then we watched Top Gear because that is what we do. After the Botswana Special, she played the game and announced it was a lot like Pokemon.
This information meant very little to me. What I know of Pokemon is the sum total this; before blood test strips, there were Pokemon cards all over the house. In fact for all I know there may still be Pokemon cards under the carpet of used strip we call the floor.
Anyway, I intentionally didn’t interact with Delaney as she used the Didget. I was curious to see what her reaction would be.
I think I should preface this next bit with - she is a few days from being a teen. I suspect that she is older than the target market for this meter-game combination.
After the initial, “It is cool!” her comment was, “It is huge.”
It is. Maybe not large enough to have it’s own moon orbiting it but I think it’s gravitational pull effects the tides.
I found it very interesting that when she discovered that the strips worked in the Contour USB she started testing with the USB. Then Connor stuck it in his pocket. Some where in this the Didget fell off the coffee table in the living room and nobody picked it up for a few days where it risked being layered into a geological strata with the strips and Pokemon cards.
My first test was this: Will the Didget hold the interest of an almost teenaged kid in my house?
No.
I think my baby daughter is too old and so experienced with meters that the game and the large meter form factor do not work for her.
So I poked around (get it poked around, diabetes, Pokemon?!? I kill myself with this stuff! - Ok ok you want to kill me too, I’ll knock it off.) I think there is a very distinct market for this thing. Connor was diagnosed at 9. Delaney at 7. We charted and used stickers as rewards for their testing the number of times they were meant to and all kinds of happy smoke blowing stuff like that. Still sticking sharp steel in their fingers got old before it became a habit.
This meter would have been crazy useful in helping build those habits and making the whole crappy newly diagnosed experience a little better - a little more of their world and less of the medical industrial complex's world.
A little then is a lot.
I am way in favor ever little bit.
With that big picture said, time fo I wish that some of the game / bonus parameters were user definable. As in Your Diabetes May Vary so how you would like to use the game interface to reinforce care behaviors may vary too. Specifically I would like to have control over the target of 4 test per day to reach the bonus points. I would make the magic number a little higher. Say test before each meal two snacks and bedtime for the grand total of 6. Yeah that is a little nit picky but what the heck I am meant pick nits aren’t I?
From what I have read there are other aspects of the Didget ecosystem (stole that ecosystem phrase from Continua) that I hope to investigate in future post.
Until then I am a fan of what the Didget is trying to do. Specifically demystify the freaking meter, make it common and accessible and encouraging kids to make care behaviors habits in their world.
I am fascinated but not suppressed by my kids’ using the Didget strip in the Contour USB and their little turf war over it. Bayer has stepped up their game in meter design. I love the creativity and kid appeal of the Didget and the adult sophistication of the Contour USB. Good design rocks!
I believe in options and markets that deliver choices to consumers.
If Your Diabetes May Vary so should the tools used to manage it.
Kudos to Bayer for getting that.
For more T1 parental perspectives on the Didget visit my friends and fellow T1 Bloggers:
Leighann - D-MomYDMV DIDGET posts:
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/05/bayer-didget-first-look.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-ii.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-iii-to-internet-and-beyond.html
May 31, 2010
Diabeticfeed is Coming Back - Yeah!
Great news on Facebook this morning. DiabeticFeed is coming back. This was my favorite source of news back in our T1 newbie days. I can't wait to have the feed on my phone.
We're back.
We're pleased to announce that diabeticfeed is back after a four year hiatus!
Join us as we begin podcasting again with the latest news, information, and people that make an impact in the diabetic community.
Thank you to all those who wanted us to continue! Expect a new podcast this week!
Can't wait until then? Get the latest updates from diabeticfeed by:
Following us on Twitter at diabeticfeed
May 25, 2010
LY/MI
Thanks 50 thousand times!
YDMV reached the 50k visit mark yesterday. Thanks to everyone of you who has stopped by. I did a little quick math and that is more visits than test strips on the floor in the same amount of time - Impressive because with two kids pumping, we get a hell of a lot of strips on the floor.
Is it possible for a strip to get into the trash without first hitting the floor?
YDMV started because my daughter challenged me to share my views on type 1 and parenting. Thanks Kelley for throwing down that gauntlet. Thanks for the challenges you, Blair, Connor and Delaney share with mom and I every day. Each and every new experience you guys bring us has been a joy. OK some take a little while to have the joy part come out but it always does.
By the way Kelley is responsible for the visual make over that comes with the 50k mark. Hope y'all like it.
It seems a little ironic that YDMV crosses this milestone while I have been spending a lot of effort on another creative challenge. This one I brought to Kelly - a turn about is fair play. While I may have let posting to YDMV slip a little, our focus on the DOC has not. I think y’all will really like the results of that other project. Stay tuned.
In the mean time please know you readers have given me back a lot thanks. LY/MI.
YDMV reached the 50k visit mark yesterday. Thanks to everyone of you who has stopped by. I did a little quick math and that is more visits than test strips on the floor in the same amount of time - Impressive because with two kids pumping, we get a hell of a lot of strips on the floor.
Is it possible for a strip to get into the trash without first hitting the floor?
YDMV started because my daughter challenged me to share my views on type 1 and parenting. Thanks Kelley for throwing down that gauntlet. Thanks for the challenges you, Blair, Connor and Delaney share with mom and I every day. Each and every new experience you guys bring us has been a joy. OK some take a little while to have the joy part come out but it always does.
By the way Kelley is responsible for the visual make over that comes with the 50k mark. Hope y'all like it.
It seems a little ironic that YDMV crosses this milestone while I have been spending a lot of effort on another creative challenge. This one I brought to Kelly - a turn about is fair play. While I may have let posting to YDMV slip a little, our focus on the DOC has not. I think y’all will really like the results of that other project. Stay tuned.
In the mean time please know you readers have given me back a lot thanks. LY/MI.
May 20, 2010
May 7, 2010
Bayer DIDGET: First Look
The DIDGET has landed. Here's a first pass quick look and some initial impressions. As we get some experience with it I will share more details.
First things first - Disclosure. Bayer was kind enough to send a meter for review at no charge to my personal pocketbook. Schwing! They also sent me an extra can of strips. Bonus Schwing! I made no promises other than to speak my mind and to make full disclosure that they gave me the stuff if I wrote about it. So there ya go.
DIDGET a meter and a Nintendo game. Like the old SNL bit it a floor wax and a dessert topping. Well except DIDGET is for real. I have been interested in this meter since it was announced. I think outside the box is cool and this thing is clearly different.
DIDGET seems to be trying to reach T1 kids where they live. It says, “You’re kids, you like games here’s a care tool that tries to be fun.” A significantly different approach than, “... or you will die.” Now don’t get me wrong there is a place for, “... or you will die.” Specifically in the Top Gear Botswana special. The relevant part of that starts about 30 seconds into this:
We love top gear and the specials are just brilliant. I suggest you buy them in iTunes as the quality is way better than YouTube and this is quality TV. Watch them with your kids. It is way more fun than diabetes.
OK back to the what is inside the box, Here is the DIDGET unpacking sequence:
You have a bright kid friendly box.
It unfolds
Inside is a pack of documentation including user guides for both the meter and game in english and spanish.
It a lot of stuff when it all gets unpacked.
At about this point my soon to be a teen started paying attention and was psyched that it was a meter. Somehow that hadn’t sunk in.
Possibly I don’t read the user guides that well but this is the first meter that I recall having an issue with the direction it gets held to test. Anyone else ever read that in a meter manual? I feel the need to test upside down and backwards just to see if it makes any difference. This is the point of the book Delaney and I added "... or you will die" to every sentence we read in the users guide and it got to be quite funny.
Over at CWD some parents have expressed concern that the DIDGET rewards in range numbers and because that is indirectly punishing numbers that is a problem. Their point being numbers are numbers not good or bad. So what does DIDGET do?
Well we just unpacked it so the jury is still out. The book says it does give slightly higher game points for in range numbers than out of range numbers (or you will die.) More significantly the game rewards multiple test in a day up to 4 test. It also rewards consecutive days of testing with bonus points if user tests at least 3 times a day (or you will die.) Here is the section of the meter manual on game points.
We haven't been using it enough to see what the game / meter interaction is. Not that I will let a little thing like not having a clue keep me from opining on the matter. I think parental actions have a bigger effect than any game will on punishing numbers. I include passive aggressive signals in that and I am guilty of far worse than a few points in a game, like projecting instead of joking "or you will die."
More importantly (not than you will die) I think the goal, as I read it, is to support having fun and build a habit of regular testing with positive feed back. Again I think parental signals are more important than any game but I think giving families tools that reinforce the idea of positive feed back for good habits is brilliant.
On the plain old meter side of things DIDGET has two levels of settings: basic and advanced. Advanced gives you the option of before and after meal marking, after meal reminders and the above mentioned personal settings for HI and LO.
So far very good.
YDMV DIDGET posts:
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/05/bayer-didget-first-look.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-ii.html
http://www.ydmv.net/2010/06/didget-iii-to-internet-and-beyond.html
May 6, 2010
FTNW: Dexcom Earnings Call
The Dexcom Earnings call went up on Seeking Alpha 5/5. It sounds like they will be out with pump CGM integration with OmniPod sooner than with Animas.
With regard to Pump CGM integration Terry Greg said:
On the CGM The Next Generation:
Full disclosure I own shares in Dexcom. My kids use Dexcom.
With regard to Pump CGM integration Terry Greg said:
Shifting to our insulin pump partnerships, we are pleased to report that we have filed a PMA supplement with the Food and Drug Administration for our first generated integrated system with Insulet Corporation. We're extremely excited about the combination of our SEVEN PLUS system with the OmniPod Insulin Management System which will merit Insulet's unique [tubeless] insulin delivery device with our best in class CGM technology.Later they said of the Animas trasmitter:
Although we cannot predict the ultimate decision or timing for a decision by the FDA, we typically expect a PMA supplement to be subject to 180 day review cycle, give or take a few months, and we hope to be positioned to launch a first product with Insulet late this year or early next.
But as you're well aware the timing of the regulatory process is uncertain. With respect to Anima, we continue to push forward on the development of a modified transmitter capable of supporting a unified global launch by Anima*. And while the development cycle has taken slightly longer than expected, we remain committed to filing a PMA supplement with the combined DexCom Anima's* system later this year as well.
*Animas - I quote'm like they write'm
Ben Andrew - William Blair
... And then you talked about the modified transmitter for Animas to launch and filing the PMA supplement later this year. Is that kind of a year end sort of event given some of the delays you've seen Terry or can we look for it before then.
Terry Gregg
Well we're still going through the technical review of that as late as last night with their folks being here. Obviously, if we can pull that in earlier, we will since it is a brand new transmitter versus the existing transmitter with the Gen3 system. Some of those still challenge us. So I would not want to predict other than in the comments that I made by the end of the year.
On the CGM The Next Generation:
I'm pleased to report that we have successfully completed a pivotal trial for our fourth generation short-term sensor, and we expect to file a PMA supplement with the FDA before the end of the quarter. In addition to improved manufacturing ability and reduced cost, our goal with Gen4 is to bring the market a next generation sensor, which will offer an unmatched level of performance and ease of use for our patients.
I expect to give additional color on the key attributes of Gen4 during our next earnings call post PMA submission, and of course we will not stop with Gen4, and we are equally excited about the progress we've made on the development of a fifth generation sensor, which we've mentioned may have application not only as a future ambulatory sensor, but also as a subcutaneous sensor for use in the hospital outside of critical care.
Full disclosure I own shares in Dexcom. My kids use Dexcom.
The Boy's Oritorical Presentation
Connor right after his appendix was yanked out.
ANCSS Oratorical Event 2010: Connor - "You're Welcome" from Academy of the New Church on Vimeo.
ANCSS Oratorical Event 2010: Connor - "You're Welcome" from Academy of the New Church on Vimeo.
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