Continous monitors - a fancy

I was exercising off some excess bg and thinking how helpful a
continuous monitor could be.

1) It could beep when it's at or predicted to soon be at, your chosen
level.

With some ability to store & send data:

2) Testing your response to food would be a snap - you tell it what
you're eating and how much, and let it record, and (later) plot a
response curve for you, and remember it for its own reference.

(By 'plot' I mean through some port to a computer, you obviously
wouldn't want it to have any size of screen.)

3) With an integrated heartrate monitor (should be doable, watch-like
ones cost just $75), it could learn (and later predict) the effect of
exercise.

4) Once your responses are learned, if you informed it as you ate, it
could predict your bg over the next few hours (peanuts take 5 hours),
show you that plot, and even tell you that you can't 'afford' another
handful of nuts for 2 hours, or tell you how much exercise you'd have
to do to be able to afford it. Or, knowing your favorite snacks, it
could tell you what you can safely afford now, or how long until you
can afford them.

That would really be 'eating to your meter' eh? You'd have the
tightest control you could wish for, without too much mental
effort. It could come to model your responses, like, 'Just began
exercising, heartrate is XX, liver dump in 5-4-3-2- ... '. It could
tell /you/ whether a midnight snack will improve / worsen your fasting
number.

If it could manage wireless it could use your phone or PDA as an IO
device. I think the hardest part of this is the bg measurement; if
those recent developments turn out, the rest should be
straightforward. It would be easy to get carried away speculating,
but once there's a steady stream of data, communication with a
sufficiently powerful computer and with you, all kinds of things
become possible.

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