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Being able to continually monitor blood glucose levels can help type 1 diabetes patients see trends and help patients make informed decisions throughout the day about how to balance food, physical activity and medicines.
But the downside is that a tiny sensor needs to be implanted just under the skin, usually the belly or arm.
Echo Therapeutics came to Eclipse for help developing their pain free exfoliator system, and non-invasive, needle free sensor. We quickly developed concepts for them to develop a prototype, and get further funding for their medical device product development process.
Designing a complete ecosystem around a new wearable technology is something we are happy to help with thanks to our focus on user-centric design.
Rapid product development and prototyping means we can quickly get visual prototypes for formative usability testing with our in-house team, and make informed decisions to save clients time and money.
We designed and prototyped three devices for Echo Therapeutics – the exfoliator, the wearable sensor, and a console that displayed glucose levels while also charging the exfoliator.
We realized that in use the exfoliator could be easily lost, so made sure that the console would house it in an obvious place, and use inductive charging to keep it ready to use. The exfoliator communicated with the console via bluetooth hardware to enable the display to have instructions for use to make operation simpler.
The wearable used a peel-off adhesive designed to stay attached for up to three days, and was also used as a guide for the exfoliator to make the preparation as easy as possible.
