SteadyMed is an Israeli company with a clever product. Their PatchPump is a little device that acts as a portable drug dispenser. It dispenses the drugs directly into the patient. This is ideal if the patient needs to take the drugs at a very regular intervals (where pill taking can sometimes be a little less regular) or when an easy subsutaneous delivery system is needed.
The PatchPump is just one example of a growing tend in highly portible healthy living hardware solutions. Unlike the PatchPump, the majority of these hardware solutions are more lifestyle based and less medical – perhaps the most common these days is the pedometer.
Over at Minimins.com Daisydee reposted a pedometer FAQ which starts with basic questions like “How does a pedometre actually work?” and “My pedometer doesn’t seem to be counting every step – what’s wrong with it?”.
In fact, the rise in the popularity of pedometers can be seen almost everywhere. The police news site PoliceOracle has a report that North Wales police offers and Community Beat Managers used pedometers to record the distance travelled in an average 10 hour shift. Bloggers like Stacie Naczelnik are happy to compare pedometer models on their health blogs.
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