Monday, September 10, 2007

Day 2

Attendance:
Haley Barrs
Brad Bostwick
Jamie Burns
Lindy Dugger
Kyle Dunaway
Allison Johnson
Hyong Ji (Julia) Kim
Allan Lansche
Hammy Mercer
Rejon Noah
Jeremy Rowland
Nicole Sanhamel
Steven Savage
Amber Stahl
Blake Williams

We started today off by calling role. Then we discussed our findings over the past weekend. Each group member had a chance to talk and contribute their ideas. One member thought it would be helpful to have a device that would take pictures of food and send them to a nutritionist. From there, the nutritionist would look at the pictures and respond back with a proper serving size for the types of food consumed. We decided this would be good for a long term approach if the person commonly ate the same things.

Another group member also brought up the idea of a watch device that could detect amounts of bodily fluids. There is currently an invention like this on the market. It works by a needle like injection into the skin which is covered up by the watch. We thought it would be a good idea to have the watch come in different colors so that kids and customers would be happier with the option of personal preference. There is also a tattoo product that detects bodily fluids in a similar way.

We think its highly important to have a device that effectively measures glucose levels and bodily fluids because of the diabetic risk of kedoesodis. This is a process in which the whole body shuts down because the body has too much sugar. The person dehydrates and throws up non-stop. This is when the body releases keytones because of the excess amount of sugar and the person usually has to go to the bathroom a lot.

There is now also a problem with young girls developing diabelimia. These girls let their blood sugar run really high and then their body lets them release keytones which in turn causes them to lose weight. This is very unhealthy and a matter of great concern.

We also discussed the idea of a pacemaker that attaches to the heart. We thought it might be a good idea to develop a device that attaches to the pancrease for diabetes. The idea of scorpion venom was also brought up. It would be carefully injected into the pancrease because it would be deadly if it got into the bloodstream.

Kids these days are self-conscious about their appearance. They are often ashamed of the image of using odd devices while other kids do not have to. It would be helpful to have something that kids would not be embarrassed to use. We also thought of the idea of having a green and red zone so it would be easy for kids to read.

It would also be nice if more restaurants provided monitors online that lets you know exactly how much of what is in each food. Subway is a restaurant that currently provides this service. Carbs, illness, and pregnancy make blood sugar rise. It would be useful to take these individual characteristics into account.

We thought that the best device overall would be a universal monitoring system that could take pictures and/or send text messages. It would have something like an electronic book that would be user friendly and have internet access. The user could input whatever they are eating and the data base would spit back out the correct serving size and appropriate amount to eat. It would also tell the user the amount of carbs and sugars in each food. This device would calculate the math for you and also send a text message to the person and their doctor when sugar levels and got too high or too low. It would also help to have a device that would give a specific diet plan to each person. Maybe this device could be something like an iphone...

<3 Nicole










1 comment:

pops baron said...

I personally think that if we were to create a product like this we should have it affiliated with PDA's and iPhone for two reasons. One, the phones are already designed so it takes less to pay them royalties or a % of sales rather than developing a comparable system on our own. Also, as you were saying in the blog some kids feel like they're "not as cool" as other kids if they have specific devices for their condition, but if they had a device that linked up with iPhone it would be more trendy and children would like it more.

So, all we would have to develop is an application for iPhone/PDAs that does 2 things:

1. Hooks up with the bluetooth that measures the blood sugar and glucose levels and would take the levels every 5 mins and lay them out into a daily spreadsheet. Also, if the levels became a little high it would call your phone and if it became dangerous it would call your phone as well as 3 other people that you select from your phone list.
2. The application would have to have a section where you input the food you just ate(or are about to eat) and it would show the calories, how it would affect your blood sugar, etc.

So, overall. I think what this would be is an all-in-one system for people with diabetes:

- LED lights under skin
- Bluetooth under skin
-Glucose/BloodSugar measurer under skin
-iPhone/PDA app. that connects with the other components

*also, one possibility is to make a computer program to where when they go home and walk by the computer all of the day's info would automatically upload to a spreadsheet to show you by a time schedule the food items you input and when as well as your levels in comparison with those

Kyle