Weekly Update: Return from Spring Break

Over spring break, I had the chance to speak with another friend who really emphasized how much a less painful allergy test would benefit anyone who has to go through the testing. I know we were aiming toward a product to help children with allergy testing, but I think this we have a good chance of marketing this to all people who get allergy tests. She also explained how when she got tested, they first tested her for general categories of allergies to see what group of allergens she was allergic to. After that, they tested her for the specific allergens in that group. Maybe we could design different allergy pads with like 10 or 20 allergens that are in groups. That way, if the person is suspected to have a certain allergy, there can be specific pads for that allergen group. We could also still do an allergy pad with unrelated allergens, then go into the more specific allergen tests. This was just my thought for the week after talking to a patient who recently had the testing done. Obviously once the prototype design is complete and we can figure out the size of the matrix, we will know how many allergens each pad can contain. Only then can we look into this specification for our product.

I have also created a logo for our product. It's a work-in-progress, but does a pretty nice job making the bee look friendly, as opposed to hurtful :)