Gad Shaanan is a product development guy. He doesn’t have a medical background and he doesn’t have diabetes. It was the sad state of glucose meters that drew him in to the world of medical devices.
“There was not a meter with a color touch screen, even,” he said Wednesday at CES 2014.
With financial support from Qualcomm, Shaanan built a new device based on good design and convenience for the person using it.
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“You never touch the strip and the used lancets are contained in a box that the person throws away,” he said.
Yofi means wonderful in Hebrew and although I can’t give the device a reality check myself, it looks like exactly the right name.
The small rectangular box holds everything a person needs to test blood sugar. The strips and lancets sit in a compartment on the back of the device. There is a small opening on one side for pricking a finger. The user then places a drop of blood in another opening on the top of the device. The meter tracks how many supplies are left in the box and reminds users to refill. The testing strips are shorter than the traditional size to fit in the box.
The meter also contains a radio antenna that transmits the data to the cloud.
Shaanan said that the meter is the first entry in what he is planning for the line of YOFiLife products. The device should be on the market at the end of the year and Shaanan plans to sell them directly to patients.
