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It just like couldn't find it.
And we have a very vertical house with four floors.
They were averaging 100 flights of stairs climbed a day looking for this thing that was in our car.
To your point, I do think this is a thing that a lot of people would find useful.
And we could do a whole other Verge cast on the state of smart glasses and all the challenges for 24-7 wear.
Or you could just read the blog that I recently wrote on theverge.com about a lot of those issues.
But I think the main issue right now is that smart glasses, functionally right now, are a sometimes device.
They are not a real 24-7 device.
This would be a really great use case, but finding the killer use case that will convince people that this is worth the societal conversation about sacrificing your privacy, we don't have that yet.
What we have are a bunch of small sometimes use cases that if you cobble maybe 70 of them together, we could come up with an actual reason to wear these all day.
But this is like one of the more compelling ones.
Yeah, it is one of the things where I think every person can go like, oh, yeah, that wouldn't be super useful.
But is this one thing going to be enough for me to risk getting punched in the face?
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So CGM is something called a continuous glucose monitor.
It is a small device with a incy-beancy little needle sticking out of it that you inject into a part of your body.
And it reads your glucose levels.
And it's like important to note that it's not your blood glucose levels.
It is your interstitial glucose levels.