VietNamNet Bridge - Apple high-end gadgets of iPhone and iPad on sale starting this year will have as an indispensable part a new compact blood sugar testing tool invented by a Vietnamese engineer living in the US.

Vu Xuan Son, co-founder of the Boston City-based AgaMatrix Inc, is the inventor of the device, namely iBGStar, which is a jointly-developed product between the company and Paris-based pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis.

Apple and Sanofi-Aventis in September last year inked a deal to fit the device, the world most compact one, into their gadgets.

This is the first medical device that can run on iOS, the high-end operation systems, similar to a USB so that diabetes can bring it easily.

Once in use, the real-time information about the blood sugar level will be displayed on the gadgets’ screens.

Even when the gadgets is out of battery, this device can resort to its own battery and show the information on a smaller screen.

This enables patients to look after their health condition and send their health reports recorded by the device to their doctors or medical centers immediately via email and receive timely feedbacks.

It took AgaMatrix two years and a half of research to make the device, which has been certified by Europe for selling in the continent and pending certification by the US authorities.

Founded by Son and a friend in 2002, AgaMatrix Inc now has over 100 inventions that are protected worldwide. Its headquarter with a R&D department and a lab has more than 100 employees, while its plants in Korea and China has over 200 ones.

The company has 200 products licensed by the US health ministry and on sale in 20 nations in the world.

Vu Xuan Son earned an MA degree in Math and mathematical language in Illinois University in 1995. He then received a doctorate degree in algorithm mathematical language in Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000.

Source: Tuoi Tre