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Comment author: chaosmage 21 May 2015 06:50:32PM 4 points [-]

For diabetics, a blood sugar monitor.

Comment author: ChristianKl 21 May 2015 08:53:05PM 3 points [-]

Apart from diabetics it would also be useful for the glucose-willpower debate.

Comment author: knb 23 May 2015 11:44:48PM *  1 point [-]

As a diabetic, I would dearly love to have something like this. I read Google was working on a contact lens blood glucose monitor with Novartis.

Comment author: DanArmak 23 May 2015 07:36:30PM 0 points [-]

If you could build the monitoring part of it - reliable, accurate, near-real-time and not too invasive - you would have an instantly revolutionary product, quite apart from piping the info to a new sensory channel.

Comment author: ReevesAnd 21 May 2015 06:56:56PM 0 points [-]

This goes beyond the general usefulness and "cool factor" of many of the other suggestions into very useful, potentially life-saving, and helps fill a purpose which we currently do fairly inefficiently.