Soon a Google smartwatch taking blood?

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According to a patent that has just filed Google in the United States, the California company would work on a smart health smart health connected object able to draw blood from the user. In this way, the state of health could be analyzed in a more precise and exhaustive way.

Modern smartwatches are becoming more competent. They know how to measure and analyze a whole lot of factors, especially relating to fitness, and can then produce reports for the user. But smart health connected watches did not yet have the ability to perform blood tests. Google would like to correct this, and has just filed a patent going in this direction. In this document, it is described that the Californian firm would work on a wearable able to take blood samples and analyze them live. Practical for pathologies requiring very regular analyzes, such as diabetes, for example.

To make blood samples, no question of shipping needles. In his patent, Google describes a micro-particle system propelled by gas into the skin, taking a small amount of blood in a sterile container. Samples could be sent to a lab or analyzed using a small external device. The question is: are you ready to really entrust everything to Google? Can progress in health be made without a real guarantee for privacy? The debate is open.

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