It's called Didget, and it's designed to make the process of testing blood sugar a less tedious experience. More amazing than that, this technology actually came out of one man's basement.
From Gamertell:
"Bayer has released a device in Europe known as Didget that comes with a fun program designed to encourage diabetic children to keep track of their blood glucose levels. Surprisingly, this new program is Knock 'Em Downs: World's Fair, a DS "game," and the Didget doubles as a peripheral that can be fitted into the GBA slot on DS and DS lite systems."
Luke Wessel was four years old when he figured out how to hide the glucose meter his parents used to monitor his diabetes. He associated the device with uncomfortable finger pricks needed to test his blood sugar, so he hid the meter under rugs or beneath his mattress. "It was like an Easter egg hunt every day," says his father, Paul Wessel, an inventor and entrepreneur. In contrast, Luke treasured his Nintendo (NTDOY) Game Boy-which gave his dad an idea: How about a video game that would reward Luke for every drop of blood he drew?
Wessel's brainstorm is now a commercial product backed by German health-care giant Bayer (BAYRY), which purchased the company Wessel founded and brought him on board to launch Didget, the first glucose meter that plugs directly into a game console. Didget went on sale in the U.K. last year. And while Bayer says it's too early to gauge its success, the company plans to roll it out in the U.S. in May.
So when does the DS dialysis machine come out?
Not soon enough...
I wonder if LifeAlert has a game
there is nothing fun about being diabetic, i can assure you.
Yea actually, my mom is pre-diabetic for adult onset. While I realize it's very different than this type, I still think creating games like this arent a bad idea. They really need one like this to help educate people not to effin eat horrible crap and get type 2.
That being said, Ive even seen a DS "Quit smoking coach"
Seriously check it out:
http://static.gamecrazy.com...