Tuesday, 11 March 2014

redesigning test strips

Before I get the form of my device I need to know what it needs to work and how it works.
For my business plan, I plan to become partners or take the idea to Accu- Chek or another popular diabetes company, so the Lancet technology will remain the same as theirs. ( the six lancet system). However I am wanting to redesign the test strips and the way in which they are set up and used.
This idea came from a competition device, The strip free Accu-Chek Mobile Blood Glucose Meter System:


The test strips in this device are contained in the silver section and they are rotated around, this can contain up to 50 strips at once. To detach from the device you just pull out the test strip and dispose of it.

To start of with I looked at how test strips work:


My thinking is to make these smaller in length so that the container can hold more and they are easier to place, by the device.

Ways in how this idea would work are still being worked on and the mechanism needed for it.





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