Really? Will the $5 Arduino people woo the doctor near you with golf trips? Will they strong arm HMOs to cover the cost? Will they carpetbomb the airwaves telling consumers to “ask their doctor?” Will they defeat the army of marketers and salespeople with entrenched competing tech?
This device may be total crap, I don’t know, but “trust the system” isn’t a great way to navigate the American medical system. Other countries have it better, or at least different.
I would bet someone out there has attempted to come up with a high-margin tongue depressor with fancy built-in features. But the plain wooden stick is already entrenched and obviously effective (for depressing tongues).
This is the opposite. If the state of the art was a fancy tongue manipulation machine that cost $30k, used licensed consumables billed at $100/patient, and did a bunch of non-essential things that doctors found convenient once in a while, would someone selling a box of sticks get anywhere?
