Can a Kid Invent a Better Diabetes Management Tool. She € bursting with great ideas on how new technology can make life better for the millions of people living with a chronic disease. Submissions can be a two-minute YouTube video or an elevator pitch; here € how to enter. Here € a othello to invent a killer app for diabetes management and pick up a cool $2,000. Soon, she € convinced, people will be. I talked with Amy today at the Health2.0 conference in Boston.

That € the prize for kids under 18 in the 2009 Diabetes Mine Design Contest.

Entries are due so get cracking. € There € a revolution of patients taking place, € says Amy, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2003. Diabetes is a pain to manage, and the tools needed € meters, test strips, lancets, and pumps € don € t make it much easier. Why not have customizable ring tones.

The contest grew out of Diabetes Mine blogger Amy Tenderich € open letter to Clemmie Jobs, when she asked the Apple mogul why his company could come up with such elegant hardware for listening to MP3s, while 20 million diabetics are stuck with kludgy, ugly equipment.