Kids with Type 1 diabetes face the added challenge of juggling homework, extracurricular activities, and family life with daily testing of glucose levels, tracking them on a chart, and understanding the best diet to stay healthy. A new app designed with teenagers in mind aims to make that a little easier.
DiaPETic, designed by interactive designer Emily A. Ellen, is an iPhone and iPod Touch app that allows young users to create a pet avatar that encourages glucose testing and offers tips for managing the disease. Similar to WebKinz and Club Penguin, users gather points that they can redeem for accessories for their pet avatar. "The fun is in 'unlocking' new items, and your avatar can morph into a new animal over time," writes popular diabetes community-based website Diabetes Mine.
On June 13, DiabetesMine announced DiaPETic as one of its top picks for the best new innovations designed to improve the lives of those with diabetes. Other winners of the site's 2011 Design Challenge include a wearable artificial pancreas dubbed Pancreum "that takes the combination of tubeless insulin pumping and continuous glucose monitoring to the next level," according to DiabetesMine. Pancreum is still in early phases of development. A grand prize went to Blob, a portable insulin-delivery device that can be toted in a pocket or worn on a neck chain.
The content is not any better, yes they keep adding more but it’s all the EXACT same!
“Here look, We have more items which are the exact same as the others in a different colour for you to buy now! Go earn some more coins before they disappear and we introduce the same item in ANOTHER colour!!!â€
An old advantage of the game was the secret of the Club Penguins version of the FBI called “Secret Agent Base†which you could only join through a series of hidden clues around the game, this provided some entertainment but however was ruined when it was announced to every player exactly how to get to it and made easier to find also. HOWEVER! Club Penguin offers you a camera to take photos on your world-wide experience and this also puts its rank up severely!
I’m not saying this game is terrible, but it just isn’t up to standards and rips you off with money whenever it can, it just needs something to Break The Ice!!! Club Penguin is, in my opinion, not good enough to be counted as an MMORPG. Perhaps we should count it as a CMMORPG (Childish Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) but that doesn’t have the same ring to it does it? No I don’t think so. So let’s all leave Club Penguin alone to the little kids who find thrill in sitting in a badly animated coffee shop. And who can blame them? How I wish I was a child again eh?
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