Ninug Glucose — exploratory

The one we are least sure about.

Food, sleep and energy are obviously connected, and almost nothing we make can see the food half. This is the direction we are exploring — a small patch worn on the upper arm. It is early, it is honest work, and it is not something you can buy.

A small white Ninug patch worn on the back of an upper arm

What this is not

This matters more than anything else on the page, so it is not at the bottom.

  • ◆It is not a continuous glucose monitorA CGM is a regulated medical device. This is not one, is not cleared as one, and is not a substitute for one
  • ◆It must never be used for insulin dosingOr for any treatment decision, by anybody, for any reason. Dosing from an uncleared wellness device is dangerous and we will not build a product that invites it
  • ◆It does not diagnose or manage diabetesIf you have diabetes or think you might, that is a conversation with a doctor and a cleared device, not with us
  • ◆It is not for sale, and has no priceThere is nothing to reserve. When that changes, this page will change with it

Why we are looking at it

The missing half of the day.

A band reads what your body is doing. A room sensor reads what you are sitting in. Neither can see what you ate, and for a great many people the afternoon crash has more to do with lunch than with either.

Metabolic pattern — not a clinical number, but the shape of a response across a week — is the obvious gap in what we can currently measure. That is the whole reason this exists.

The Ninug patch worn during exercise

The form

A pod that lasts, on a base that does not.

The electronics live in a reusable pod; the adhesive base underneath is the consumable. Contacts rather than a connector, so there is nothing to line up and nothing to break. Worn on the back of the upper arm, under a sleeve, invisible in normal clothes.

The Ninug patch separated into its reusable pod and adhesive base, showing the gold contacts

Where it actually is

Concept, and the hard part is unsolved.

  • ◆The sensing approach is not settledThere are several routes and they differ enormously in cost, accuracy and what they legally are. We have not chosen
  • ◆The industrial design is ahead of the engineeringThe pictures on this page are concept renders. There is no working prototype behind them, and we would rather say so than imply one
  • ◆The regulatory position follows the sensing approachSome routes are wellness; some are unambiguously a medical device. Which one this becomes is not a decision we can make by wording
  • ◆No timelineAnnouncing one for a thing at this stage would be a guess dressed as a plan

Everything else on this site describes something that exists or is being manufactured. This page is the exception, and it is labelled that way on purpose.

In the meantime.

The Ninug Band reads your body and the Ninug Room reads the space around it. Those are the two halves we can actually measure today.

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