Glucoboy Rewards Diabetics With GBA Fun

Thanks to Joystick101 for pointing to a news piece discussing the in-development Glucoboy add-on for the GameBoy Advance. According to the article, "Glucoboy is a glucose meter that can be inserted into a Nintendo GameBoy. The product operates independent of the video game system, but downloads video game programs that are contained within its circuitry into the GameBoy as a reward for maintaining good blood sugar control." The product hopes to help children with diabetes monitor their condition better, and the creator comments that his son "...always knew where his GameBoy was, but he always seemed to misplace his Glucometer."

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Re:As an actual diabetic...

[SolemnDragon]

Handspring has a module for it. I used to be hypoglycemic and had the same issue. My glucose meter wasn't very inconvenient, but it was a fuss to have to deal with it, and Handspring actually does have glucose springboards. Here is one link o the news segment. I have to say that i haven't tried them; i was used to my monitor, and while i'll be looking at these in the future (because having a drastic shift away from hypoglycemia means that i'll be checked for diabetes regularly) i don't need one just this minute.

Make sure that if you get one, you get one of the calibration kits that they sell for various glucometers, to check before you start using it that it works as advertised. It's a problem even with standard glucose meters sometimes, so it's worth checking.