Excuse me, I should have been more clear. I was refering to how people abreaviate those terms when they speak. When written those terms are abreaviated mhz and ghz. I would like to hear you say "mhz", with out saying "megahertz".
It should never be that it has 2 gigs of processor and 40 gigs of hard drive.
It should never have any ___ of processor. This is not how to express the speed of something. Would you say I was drive 2 miles of hour???
It should never be 40 gigs of hard drive either.
The following are all valid:
a 2 gig processor
a 900 meg processor
20 gigs of hard drive space
a 20 gig hard drive
900 megs of processor speed
I do understand that BB and RS employees should never be allowed to abreaviate anything because if your lucky 1% of all of them combined will do so correctly.
I was diagnosed at 8 months, I'm 22 years old now, I have a post below for a dream meter, but thats another story. As for the issue of single vs. multistrip I have done both, I think that multistrip is the way to go. With single strip you have to carry several strips with you to get through a night away from home. With my multistrip meter I was able to go on vacation for a week and only had to bring three drums of strips. I was testing 5 times a day. I have tried 2 different multistrip meters, I like the accu-chek compact more because it has 17 strips per drum, and the way the case is laid out you always know if you have a spare drum with you. when I was using a single strip meter I would pack a medical kit that contained a meter, a large pile of foil packeged strips, and my 2 vials of insulin with about 40 syrings. Now I pack a meter, 2 spare drums, 1 vial, 2 pens, 10 syrings, and 40 pen needles, and my medical kit is less than 1/3rd the size. Not to mention that for a 1 day trim my medical kit as the same size as my palm pilot.
I love it, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way, but if you could find a way for a device of this fasion to act as an insulin pump to that would be even better.
I have a lengthy post below that details what I would want in a meter, one thing I mentioned is a mini-B usb port. These ports are able to act as devices and hosts. With this port you would be able to attach add-ons such as a voice box. Please take a look at my post for more details on this dream meter and post any more interesting ideas that it may inspire.
Multiple strips are a must have for any diabetic on the go, the smaller you can make the meter the better, but the display needs to be easy to read. One word, BACKLIGHT. Glucose tracking is a must, advanced displays for tracking are nice but are usualy better for a desktop computer or palm app that can communicate with the meter (I know that I personaly never even look at the memory on my meter except to see if I remembered to do a test). Food intake & Insulin tracking, very few meters have this (2 that I know of do insulin and 1 does food), it is a handy feature to have and one that I have been begging for in meters for a while. My biggest complaint is that there are NO meters on the market with multistrip capability that do insulin tracking. You should be able to program the meter to sugest insulin dosage based on food intake and glucose entry (usualy 1 unit per every n carbohydrates, and 1 unit per every m mg/dl over x). These days the meter must be able to communicate with the desktop, some can communicate with palmos devices. It is my belief that the meter should come with whatever tools you need to connect it to a computer or they should be free. Many manufactures do not feel the same. Every meter I have seen uses its own connector on a cable that attaches to the computer, accu-chek uses a serial ir devices that talks a custom protocol. One way to make the tools to access the meter via a desktop easy to obtain would be to use a mini-B usb plug. If the meter were just a usb device and the software were freely downloadable (or on cd for a low price ~$5) that would be exelent. I think that is all the input I have, and if you ever create a meter close to this PLEASE let me know.
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The v.2 player on the site has usb, you could fassion the same thing with a usb port.
Excuse me, I should have been more clear. I was refering to how people abreaviate those terms when they speak. When written those terms are abreaviated mhz and ghz. I would like to hear you say "mhz", with out saying "megahertz".
It should never be that it has 2 gigs of processor and 40 gigs of hard drive. It should never have any ___ of processor. This is not how to express the speed of something. Would you say I was drive 2 miles of hour??? It should never be 40 gigs of hard drive either. The following are all valid: a 2 gig processor a 900 meg processor 20 gigs of hard drive space a 20 gig hard drive 900 megs of processor speed I do understand that BB and RS employees should never be allowed to abreaviate anything because if your lucky 1% of all of them combined will do so correctly.
I was diagnosed at 8 months, I'm 22 years old now, I have a post below for a dream meter, but thats another story. As for the issue of single vs. multistrip I have done both, I think that multistrip is the way to go. With single strip you have to carry several strips with you to get through a night away from home. With my multistrip meter I was able to go on vacation for a week and only had to bring three drums of strips. I was testing 5 times a day. I have tried 2 different multistrip meters, I like the accu-chek compact more because it has 17 strips per drum, and the way the case is laid out you always know if you have a spare drum with you. when I was using a single strip meter I would pack a medical kit that contained a meter, a large pile of foil packeged strips, and my 2 vials of insulin with about 40 syrings. Now I pack a meter, 2 spare drums, 1 vial, 2 pens, 10 syrings, and 40 pen needles, and my medical kit is less than 1/3rd the size. Not to mention that for a 1 day trim my medical kit as the same size as my palm pilot.
I love it, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way, but if you could find a way for a device of this fasion to act as an insulin pump to that would be even better.
I have a lengthy post below that details what I would want in a meter, one thing I mentioned is a mini-B usb port. These ports are able to act as devices and hosts. With this port you would be able to attach add-ons such as a voice box. Please take a look at my post for more details on this dream meter and post any more interesting ideas that it may inspire.
I called the company that manufacturs the dex and the dex 2, the difference is... THE COLOR
Multiple strips are a must have for any diabetic on the go, the smaller you can make the meter the better, but the display needs to be easy to read. One word, BACKLIGHT. Glucose tracking is a must, advanced displays for tracking are nice but are usualy better for a desktop computer or palm app that can communicate with the meter (I know that I personaly never even look at the memory on my meter except to see if I remembered to do a test). Food intake & Insulin tracking, very few meters have this (2 that I know of do insulin and 1 does food), it is a handy feature to have and one that I have been begging for in meters for a while. My biggest complaint is that there are NO meters on the market with multistrip capability that do insulin tracking. You should be able to program the meter to sugest insulin dosage based on food intake and glucose entry (usualy 1 unit per every n carbohydrates, and 1 unit per every m mg/dl over x). These days the meter must be able to communicate with the desktop, some can communicate with palmos devices. It is my belief that the meter should come with whatever tools you need to connect it to a computer or they should be free. Many manufactures do not feel the same. Every meter I have seen uses its own connector on a cable that attaches to the computer, accu-chek uses a serial ir devices that talks a custom protocol. One way to make the tools to access the meter via a desktop easy to obtain would be to use a mini-B usb plug. If the meter were just a usb device and the software were freely downloadable (or on cd for a low price ~$5) that would be exelent. I think that is all the input I have, and if you ever create a meter close to this PLEASE let me know.