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>> Hey, all. Marty here. Today,

we're coming at you with our Friday finds.

With me, I've got Michael.

Say hello, Michael.

>> Hello, Michael.

>> Lynn, say hello, Lynn.

>> Hello, everybody.

>> Lynn, why don't you kick us off with our first story?

>> Sure. Well, I'll just quickly introduce myself.

I'm Lynn Schneider, and you may know me as

Kane Prince around the Internet.

And I am a right now sort of an intern, I guess you could say.

I'm interested in branching out

and becoming a content producer.

And I decided to ask the best teachers that I could find.

• We'll do our best to learn to use something.

• And so I'm really excited.

I love technology.

You guys probably know me.

I do the ACB crafters on Fridays.

I'm involved in lots of different,

I'm totally blind from birth from anaphylmia.

I was born with that eyes. Yeah.

I'm really excited to be here

and to share some news stories with everyone.

My first news story of the week has to do with

the freestyle libre readers

that many people use for diabetic control,

blood sugar control monitoring.

Why don't you tell everyone who may not know what a freestyle librarian is exactly just so they understand what it is?

So these readers actually help people

Monitor their blood sugars

without having to stick themselves with needles all the time and

Many people are doing this that they will sync up with your phone

so that you can have access to your readings and

It will tell you if you need insulin or

Actually, I think that they they even you can even get insulin

Injectables that they will actually do the injection for you

So you don't have to poke yourself with a needle.

So the new technology, the old technology actually,

what people used to have to do if they didn't have these,

you know, digital phone apps was they would have to take

either a little needle, poke themselves,

and then they'd have to use a little strip,

put that in another machine,

they would have to get a little drip of the blood

and then suck that into the little strip

which goes in the machine and tells you

what your glucose level or what your sugar level is,

which is glucose at that exact moment.

And it would reach you on the screen,

whatever the number is.

And some of them are accessible and some of them are not.

And the ones that are accessible will speak

the what's on the screen, your glucose number

or sugar number at that moment out loud to you.

Now the new technology, which what Lynn is talking about is you get this little tiny

sticker which you stick on and it goes under your skin just enough so that it can check

your blood and you don't change it.

It sits there constantly.

And then what happens is you have an app on your phone, which you open up and then when

you hit the app, it automatically draws your blood sugar for you and then gives you the

reading on your phone on the app and then it will keep track of all that information

so that the next time you go to the doctor they can see what your trends are and you

can also obviously look and see what your trends are and see if your blood sugars are

high low and different whatever the case may be.

So with all of that being said so Lynn now what is the problem that they're running into

these machines?

Well, basically what's happening is that the lithium ion batteries in the readers, some

users are reporting that they're swelling and that they're overheating and sparking.

Wow, really?

Okay.

In rare cases, they're even catching fire.