RememberGoogle ’s sassy contact lenses ? Well , now the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is turning them into a commercial realism .
Google Is make believe Smart Contact Lenses for Better Health Monitoring
The two companieshave announcedthat Novartis is licence Google ’s technology to make special contact lenses for diabetic affected role . The novel lens will analyse tear fluid in the centre and provide real - time , constant measuring of an soul ’s glucose levels . That data will then be transmit wirelessly to a mobile , enabling users to monitor their experimental condition easily .
Novartis come along to have plans beyond simple glucose level monitoring , though . It plan to use them to treat people with farsightedness , who can no longer read without glass , and is even weigh the possible action of plant the lens directly into the center . Which , is great but … ouch ?
The technology is still very much in its early childhood — you could be sure it ’ll take a while to get FDA approval — but this is a big footprint forwards . This is one Google X project that is definitely becoming a commercial reality . [ NovartisviaVerge ]
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