Handheld game console, Nintendo DS is equipped with a special system, called Didget. It is help diabetic children monitor their condition (blood sugar).

The Didget system for Nintendo’s DS Children is £29.99 and works only with the Nintendo DS. A child with type 1 diabetes, they must insert the test strip in the glucometer of Didget, inflict on it a drop of capillary blood, and then connect the device to a game console.

The blood sugar data will be analysis in the DS, and gamers-diabetic charged player points, which allow moving to a new, more complex level in the games and buying items for the characters. The more frequently and regularly measures the child blood sugar level, the more points he earns. Thus, the child produced an incentive for constant self-control.

Didget Glucometer was developed by Bayer, together with Paul Wessel, father of the child with diabetes mellitus. One day, Paul noticed that his son Luke often loses its blood glucose meter, but not for a moment parted ways with the Nintendo Game Boy console. In 2000, Wessel quit his job and with the support of Nintendo founded his own company, Guidance Interactive Healthcare, to pursue the creation of children’s blood glucose meters. Later Wessel ideas permeated the Bayer, and the resulting system has appeared in Didget.

Today in the UK, there are 25,000 children have diabetes. Those who suffer from type 1 diabetes must check the blood sugar about six times a day.

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