Modern wearables are great and can help you follow all kinds of things from activity to sleep, but some things are still missing. The prospect of a portable one that the glucose can follow continuously without having to poke yourself with a needle has long been considered the holy grail and will be life -changing for many users.
Apple, Samsung, Huawei and many others have found a way to let us follow our heartbeat 24/7 into an accuracy level that you can give a heads -up if you suffer from a serious heart condition. We also see something similar happening to following blood pressure and the ability to detect hypertension.
Now Samsung says it will do the same for blood glucose monitoring and saying that this would be a big problem is a huge understatement.
It used his most recent health forum to reveal that not only blood glucose is a major area of attention for the company, but it also develops a sensor salvation rhythm to detect early signs of diabetes and to work on blood glucose monitoring technology.
Senior vice-president Dr. Hon Pak from Samsung added that the progress that the team made behind the optically-based glucose monitor is “exciting” and will be a “game-changer, but is not yet time to launch a launch.
Most will assume that this technology will be reserved for Samsung Galaxy Smartwatches, perhaps the upcoming Galaxy Watch 8. After all, watches are where Samsung ECG and blood pressure functions introduced for the first time.
I would like to think that when this potentially pioneering technology is ready, Samsung actually decides to place it in a future Melkwegring.
Although smartwatches remain the dominant portable power, we cannot ignore the rise of the smart ring, including Samsung’s decision to make one. Until now, smart rings have focused on monitoring data such as steps, sleep, heart rate and blood oxygen levels and offer guidelines and insights to your general well -being.
Until this year there was no smart ring that promised to provide serious health insights. The circular ring 2 was then announced with an ECG sensor and a algorithm abolished by the FDA to detect signs of atrium fibrillation.
Smart rings such as the Oura Ring have opened around the idea that it can offer such health insights. This movement by circular can simply change things that front.
Can Samsung be the first on the market?
Samsung says that his glucose monitor is based on optical and that the Milky Way ring already packs optical sensors to follow the heartbeat, the oxygen levels of the blood and the skin temperature.
It is one thing to get that sensor technology in a smartwatch, making it placed in a smart ring with a much smaller form factor to play with, it only makes it more difficult. The first Samsung Galaxy Ring was proof that Samsung knows how to make a good smart ring and I think the idea of continuously monitoring data from a screen -free portable as a ring is a more natural fit than a smartwatch.
You do not have to constantly check in and you can leave it to the accompanying app to tell you when trends have changed in your data.
The fact that Samsung does not make a launch date on this monitor says that there is still work. After talking to experts in this space such as Dexcom about the challenges of creating an accurate non-invasive monitor, I do not expect that in the very near future, I may not see the Galaxy Ring 2 but maybe a third Generation model.
When Samsung has that sensor technology ready, it seems more likely that it will be included in its smartwatches. However, if Samsung wanted to make the biggest sound, it would first have to put it in a ring.
It would be a big victory for a portable form factor that still leaves his mark, but is undoubtedly here to stay.
