6/16/2003 10:24:00 AM

the personal computing and networking advancements of last 20+ years have cleared the way for personal medical technology whose benefit for humanity will likely eclipse the vast majority of the hyped benefits of the PC and Internet revolutions. i am ready for wearable data devices that monitor, record and upload data to a personal store on a daily basis allowing me to trend body functions and map data against visual body scans and the like. of course beyond that i want generic nanoviruses at my disposal to deliver diagnostic, prescriptive and recreational payloads to targeted areas of my body... but i'll take what i can get for now.

BodyMedia is one company who is beginnig to produce personal monitoring devices. they completed series B financing last year and were just awarded a federal grant in the area of diabetes prevention and management. you can read more about their business in a Wall Street Journal interview with CEO Astro Teller on StartupJournal.
(some trivia: i sold the WSJ StartupJournal back in the late 90s)