Google Develops Smart Contact Lenses, Can Check Diabetes

Google Develops Smart Contact Lenses, Can Check Diabetes | Google has announced the presence of smart contact lenses. The announcement came Thursday. The lens was enabled to health, control blood sugar or diabetes users.

As reported by USA Today, Friday 17 January 2014, Google's smart lens will measure glucose levels by utilizing a wireless chip and sensor glucose. Lenses utilize to measure tear glucose diabetic person. This blog about Information Technology and The Latest Gadgets.

Internet giant's share stories happenings emergence of this wearable device. The company listened to most diabetics rarely checked their glucose levels because of an injection or blood test.

While Google wants to facilitate testing glucose levels in a way that is simple and easy.

The experts actually have been looking for better ways to glucose, for example through sweat, saliva, urine until the tears.

Examination through tears relatively more realistic, but the knock on the way it was collected. For that, I then bring the smart contact lenses.

"Anyone wondering, mini electronic devices, such as chips and small and thin sensor, can measure glucose levels with great accuracy," Google said.

In making the smart lens, I have to work hard, chip designing towering super thin mini and independently. The lens is also designed flexible material such as plastic films.

Chips and sensors embedded between two layers of contact lens materials. There is a small pinhole in the lens of the eye that allows liquid water to seep in glucose sensors. Uniquely, this lens can analyze the glucose level every second.

The Mountain View-based company that has conducted several studies to test the comfort and functionality of smart lens.

We also explain how the relationship tear glucose and blood glucose by cooperating with diabetes. In addition, the company also consult with the Food and Drug Administration.

Contact lens smart Google is the work of a specialized laboratory known as Google or Google X. Google Glass and a car without a driver is one of the products of the laboratory.

The two founders of this project, Babak Parviz and Brian Otis, who had collaborated at the University of Washington, joined Google X. Parvis has contributed to develop the Google Glass, while Otis joined the project it smart lens.

Contact lenses are now still limited to a prototype and is likely to be commercialized in a few years.

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