Contact lenses for diabetics signed Google

After the Googles Glass, smart health connected glasses with augmented reality, the American firm is interested in health with contact lenses intended for diabetics.

Already invested in the world of smart health connected objects, Google continues to vary its activities. If the possibilities are immense, clothing, health home automation, accessories, everyday objects or household appliances, health remains paramount.According to the International Diabetes Federation, more than 371 million people were living with diabetes in 2012, a number that could reach 430 million by 2030 if the World Health Organization is to believe. Google and its Google X Lab therefore turn to this global health problem.

Useful lenses

To make life easier for the sick, Google announced on its official blog "testing smart lenses made to measure glucose levels in tears."If researchers at the Google X Lab, Google’s secret lab, admit that “there is still a lot of work to make this technology viable,” more is known about how it works.Thanks to a small smart health connected chip and a glucose sensor, inserted between two materials, these lenses will be able to measure the glucose level every second.Accessory both innovative and useful since it will be able to control blood sugar and prevent discomfort.

Technology still in development

These lenses could even be accompanied by a system of light signals that would warn users when glucose levels are exceeded.Google has also announced that it has performed clinical trials and discussed with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Difficult to live in and painful to follow on a daily basis, this project, still in development, would make the lives of hundreds of millions of patients easier.In order to be completely complete, it should be noted that Microsoft had already announced in 2011 to work on smart lenses aimed at "improving the health and daily life of diabetics".We can only welcome this investment in the health sector.

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