Pelikan Sun

Ever since then I have been a happy tester. But not my wife.

“After using the Pelikan Sun, everything else seems barbaric,” she told me.

The Pelikan Sun isn’t available yet in the United States. It will be available in the second quarter of 2007, the company tells me. (UPDATE January 7, 2008: The Pelikan Sun is finally available in the U.S. and the price is a lot less: $199. See: http://www.pelikantechnologies.com/buy)

But the company is test marketing it right now in Australia. So I did what a caring husband has to do and ordered one for my wife from Diabetes Australia New South Wales.

People in Australia can buy the Pelikan Sun for Australian$332.50. Diabetes Australia New South Wales will ship it anywhere for the equivalent of U.S.$253. With air freight charges the total price came to $297.30. I ordered it by sending an email message to Kerin McNamara.

That was the exchange rate on the day I ordered it. Pelikan Technologies has not yet set U.S. pricing, but it will certainly be close.

A lot of money? No. You just can’t put a price on your pain. Or that of your spouse.