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We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material. We’re testing prototypes that can generate a reading once per second. We’re also investigating the potential for this to serve as an early warning for the wearer, so we’re exploring integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed above or below certain thresholds. It’s still early days for this technology, but we’ve completed multiple clinical research studies which are helping to refine our prototype. We hope this could someday lead to a new way for people with diabetes to manage their disease.Google Working On Smart Contact Lens For Glucose Measurement To Help Diabetes Sufferers [googleblog.blogspot.com]
Other companies have long been working on smart lenses — including Microsoft Research, which unveiled a similar project in 2011 in collaboration with someone who now works for Google X.Smart Contact Lens Is Old News For Microsoft [techcrunch.com]
As long as technology becomes available for those contact lenses to send imagery back to Google for profiling users, helping diabetics monitor their sugar will be a small price for Google to pay for that data
