A project stemming from the Steve Jobs era: noninvasive and continuous blood glucose monitoring.
Mark Gurman from Bloomberg has broken a story in which he has mentioned that Apple has worked more than 12 years to make this technology and overturned a multibillion-dollar industry.
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The target of the secret struggle is to measure the glucose level in anyone’s body without pricking the skin for blood. After a long time of struggle, the firm thinks that it can now introduce glucose monitoring to the market. However, there are many more things to do.
Reportedly, Apple has been using chip technology such as silicon photonics and optical absorption spectroscopy to make this blood glucose monitor.
The Journalists’ Words
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As per Gurman, the system takes help of the lasers which emit particular wavelengths of light into the area under the skin where there is interstitial fluid which can be absorbed by glucose.
Now, light is reflected back to the sensor in a way that shows the concentration of glucose. After this process, a particular algorithm specifies a person’s blood glucose level.
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If we go through Gurman’s words, this project is among the most “covert steps at the well known secretive Apple.” as very less people are indulged in the blood glucose monitor device compared to mixed-reality headset or the Apple Car.
The New Target of Apple
As per the reports of Bloomberg, Apple has been testing this no prick glucose technology on “hundreds of people” in the last ten years, and now the target is to make a prototype device related to the size of an iPhone that can be tied to the bicep of any person.
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People who know the concept already says that this system is now acknowledged to be at a “Proof-of-concept stage.”
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