Gallery: A Simple, Smart, and Elegant—Yes, Elegant—Glucose Monitor

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    Most glucometers look like a cross between a stopwatch and a portable chemo pump. One Drop does not, and instead evokes the ease and luxury of those compact cocktail kits you find in gift shops.
  • Brooklyn firm Pensa did the industrial design. Like most glucometers it includes a lance for drawing blood test strips...
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    Brooklyn firm Pensa did the industrial design. Like most glucometers, it includes a lance for drawing blood, test strips, and a meter to read them. Everything is clad in smooth stainless steel and tucked into a pebbled leather sleeve about the size of a wallet.
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    One Drop's good looks are crucial to its success. “Why is it so automatic that you come to a café and take your phone out, and put it next to you?" asks One Drop founder Jeff Dachis. Because: Your phone is pretty. Dachis figures a glucometer as attractive as your iPhone might get used more often.
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    That Apple emulation extends to One Drop's sick packaging.
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    One Drop can’t spare diabetics from the chore of managing data, so it’s opting for the next best thing: making that chore as elegant as possible.
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