I have the Cue Reader and Cue Covid Test Cartridges and its a breeze to use: and with no contact with the buffer, reagent, or reaction chamber and nothing to “mess-up”; nicely designed and manufactured; and with a great interaction app; and made with “Apple-like” packaging presentation. However just like Apple, its expensive, and I use it sparingly, preferring to get the cheaper “antigen” LFT strips, with no brand preferences other than the “free ones” when they were available or the “cheap ones” to stock up when they go on sale at the local chain drug store.
This is a great POCT machine and with a strong value proposition for institutions. However the private consumer is being left behind (and as such money left on the table) The future of diagnostic testing for this segment of the market is going to depend on innovative electromechical design, for "entirely self-contained and disposable" OTC and advance "next generation" chemistry to allow AMBIENT and NEAR INSTANTANEOUS REACTIONS, BATTERY POWERED, AND EASY TO READ. Start-ups and their backers are rushing to get this done, and sometimes with Gates Foundation Grants where they are willing to give up a portion of the global market (with “open-access” and global licensing agreements). I am anxiously awaiting for something like this (before the competition sweeps past with a low COGS personal consumer product with):
No instrument or reader;
No external power supply;
Results shown on a high-contrast display.
Maybe a “partnering deal”?
