Yet another market for Nintendo!

http://news.filefront.com/glucoboy-diabetes-management-for-your-ds-or-gba/

Glucoboy: Diabetes Management for Your DS or GBA

The DS can do a lot of things these days: tune into TV, test your brain, make you look like a fool whenever your asked to blow into the mic while playing it out in public. But it looks like Nintendo’s little device has just gotten a new use with the “Glucoboy.” The Glucoboy is essentially a glucose monitor that plugs into a GBA or the GBA slot on a DS. The cartridge is intended to make diabetes management more fun for younger users by awarding points each time they perform a test. More points are awarded for falling within specific blood sugar limits, which can then be spent in the two included games or in the GRiP (Guidance Reward Platform) community for accessories, apparel, and cards for one of the games, called “Knock ‘Em Downs.”

The device was introduced a couple weeks ago in Australia for World Diabetes Day, and was created by Paul Wessel. Wessel came up with the idea when he noticed his 9-year old son would always misplace his glucose monitor, but could always find his Gameboy. It took him three years to get Nintendo’s approval, but now he has a great gadget in production to help diabetic kids keep track of their blood sugar level. Hopefully though, this doesn’t start a trend of games that require human blood to play.

How come it says this thread has -1 replies? How is that possible? On topic: wow, that is friggin crazy. If I had diabetes and no one knew, they would quickly find out as I walked the streets blowing into the oddly shaped device on the top of my GBA.

You don't blow into the device for this. They were talking about other games for the DS...

With this you have to poke yourself with a needle to braw blood and put the blood on a test strip and then stick the test strip in the device...

I can see it now. The next big thing will be the DS Alcohol Monitor. More party games LOL!

interesting, but like wewdeadeye says, people wont go public with this, people don't want to show others they have diabetes so..

Yes, but if kids keep it in the same case as their gameboy, they will be less likely to loose it. It can be carried around without being "public".

Am I the only one that thinks Glucoboy sounds like a lame superhero side kick?

Yes.  I thought it sounded like a lame superhero.