UW team only Canadian entry to make the Dyson shortlist
Posted Oct 2, 2016 08:28:32 AM.
Last Updated Oct 2, 2016 10:15:14 AM.
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They saw an opportunity to save lives and they jumped on it.
The student team from the University of Waterloo saw world diabetes stats and wanted to make a device to help people deal with it.
The contact lens uses biotechnology to analyze the tear film in your eyes and process the data. There’s three major components to the function, the detection module, power module, and communication module.
The info is then sent via push notification to your phone and tells you when you need to medicate.
Terry Ghandi is one of the co-founders of Medella Health and says saving lives is the reason for the invention.
“Diabetes is a huge problem as we all know,” says Ghandi, “it’s become one of those things where it’s starting to become an epidemic and if we have a way or preventing that, or at least controlling that, that’s where our technology comes in.”
Ghandi adds a patient will instantly know when they need to medicate.
“A patient can better manage their health,” says Ghandi, “if your glucose is going too high or too low before anything serious happens, you’ll get a push notification.”
The top 20 finalists from across the world will know the winner in late October.
Ghandi adds it’s pretty neat to be garnering global attention. “it’s a great feeling,” says Ghandi, “James Dyson is one of those awards that’s so well respected not just nationally but across the world so to be part of the top 20 is something else, it’s hard to describe that feeling.”
James Dyson, the man behind the bag less vacuum will choose who takes home the award.
