Bayer Contour USB - Glucometer on a Thumbdrive

Bayer, a new entrant to the glucose monitoring game, has upped the ante on all of the other big name glucose monitors by having a USB stick Glucometer, the Bayer Contour USB. With the rise in adult-onset diabetes in the world, glucose management is becoming more and more important to many people. Many of them suffer horrible consequences of having diabetes and not finding out until tragedy strikes. Even so, very few people have been willing to get tested as they get older to make sure they haven't developed diabetes. Many advances have been made in the past decade making diabetes management much less stressful. Modern meters require only very tiny amounts of blood and you don't have to prick your finger tips. Many meters are just as accurate with blood samples from the hand or forearm. Once the reading has been taken, it's effectively trapped in the small pager-like device. It's very hard to get an idea of your daily trends or figure in the effects of stress and time of day on the tiny LCD displays. Bayer's Contour USB is the first easily computer connected glucometer.