Abbott tells CES it’s getting into consumer biowearables

US medical device maker, Abbott, is moving into making general purpose consumer biosensing wearables.
The company has been making continuous glucose monitor (CGM) hardware for diabetes management for years (since 2014) — but in a healthtech keynote at CES yesterday, Abbott’s chairman and CEO, Robert B Ford, announced it’s developing a new line of consumer biowearables — called Lingo — intended for more general fitness and wellness purposes.
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