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If you wear a continuous or Flash
glucose monitor, you might like
to take a look at the wide range of
patches and stickers available from
www.typeonestyle.com
The real thing
Small doses?
RealThing Ai has launched fully
voice-accessible smartphone, the
RealSAM Pocket V4, which has been
completely designed for people
with sight loss. Newly available in
the UK, RealSAM Pocket V4 delivers
on significant innovations from
its V3 2021 release. The newest
developments are cleverly crafted
to meet the daily frustrations that
visually impaired people face,
including the ease of accessing
choices when shopping, challenges
in being independently mobile and
a need for a reliable solution to read
text in confidential situations, such
as banking and healthcare.
Now faster, more powerful and
with upgraded visual clarity, RealSAM
Pocket V4 boasts features such as
Optical Character Recognition (OCR),
Object Recognition and an enhanced
Emergency On-call Assistant to
support independent living and make
everyday tasks such as cooking and
completing shopping easier.
The latest version allows users
to use their smartphone to set a
reminder detailing their shopping
list, use guided navigation to walk
independently to the supermarket,
and receive reminders to avoid
known pitfalls such as high kerbs or
low hanging trees. Its voice activated
Object Recognition and OCR features
enables users to review items on a
supermarket shelf, compare prices
and select products with a preferred
sell by date.
RealThing Ai is an artificial
intelligence business formed in 2008
by a collection of Ai researchers and
developers with a background in
Defence, Aviation and Research. Its
RealSAM products aim to change the
lives of visually impaired people in
Australia, the UK and the US. Since
its UK launch in 2018 in partnership
with the RNIB and O2, RealSAM
Pocket has bundled an easy to use,
fully voice-controlled smartphone
with inbuilt entertainment and
personal assistant features.
RNIB Digital Transformation
Manager, Paul Porter, said: "Speaking
directly with blind and partially
sighted people to find out their
thoughts and frustrations with
accessible smartphones was essential
for this product development. We
hope the updated features of the new
phone will help to meet the needs of
customers with sight loss."
www.realsam.co.uk/shop.
The patches are designed to
protect your device as well as
keep it stuck in place but without
comprising on skin care. Some are
even designed for children and can
improve how they feel about their
devices. Type One Style founder
(and Type 1 himself), Charlie Cawsey
says, "We've built a digital platform
to reach people with diabetes around
the world and intend to leverage
social media to deliver inspiring and
meaningful tips and content. We
are sharing this as we have found
this advice extremely helpful in our
diabetes management and want
to make sure as many people have
access to our knowledge hub as
possible. We also want people to
worry less and live more, hence the
patches and stickers which can make
devices less 'medical' looking as well
as reduce the worry about a device
coming unstuck, and which use
certified hypoallergenic materials."
Innovation Zed, developer of novel diabetes management technologies
(the InsulCheck range), has announced it will be launching InsulCheck
DOSE technology that will be coming to market in 2022. Innovation
Zed has collaborated with SHL Medical in the development. SHL
Medical is a world-leading provider of drug delivery solutions.
InsulCheck DOSE is a single unit add-on device for pen injectors
that automatically captures dose values dialled, injection event time
stamps, temperature and mounting/unmounting events. Through
Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) technology, InsulCheck DOSE transmits
these data points to a paired companion software platform in real
time for inclusion in diabetes management therapy. In other words,
InsulCheck DOSE it's add-on device, that can turn all injection pens
into smart pens to support people on multiple daily injections (MDI).
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