Chosen Concept

I have chosen my idea of what I am going to do for this project. It is the theme of helping people to test themselves at night. I have contacted Diabetes Scotland again for more information about these problems they face. However my tutorial group said previously that I can't just focus on light my product has to incorporate other parts. So the other insights i am focusing on is, the user friendly interface and a more discrete equipment. I have decided to combine the three testing elements into one, the glucose meter, the lancet and the testing strips.

I wanted to get in contact with the manufacturing companies and I had sent out emails a while back, I heard back from accu-chek and they said they couldn't give out information because it was confidential. So I don't know if I should keep trying or just give up. I am still waiting on replies from other companies.

To investigate a Lancet further I bought a glucose meter kit to take apart the lancet. Before that I tested my blood glucose to see how it was to operate. At first I had difficulty knowing how to work it, I did glance over the instructions so maybe I should have paid more attention to them. I went through a whole tube of Lancets and 5 testing strips until I actually managed to get a result, because I put the lancet tube into the main body and then took it out again and you are not supposed to do that once its in it can't be taken out again. From this I am going to make my product as obvious as possible. I got a blood glucose level of 5.1 which is in the range of normal.

So I took the Lancet and the glucose meter apart which was a challenge in itself I couldn't get into the main body to see what was in there so I sawed my way in and it is actually quite compact design. It was interesting to see how they worked.

The packaging

The test strip

The glucose meter

The lancet

For my product i want to keep the way the lancets are designed the same but change the way the test strips are designed.
I showed my tutorial group the concept and they said as the main focus is on light i would need to test different colours of light at different times of day to see which one is better.