Google’s innovative X lab has released images of a new breed of smart contact lens, housing a wireless chip and glucose sensor to monitor the sugar levels of diabetics.
This works by tracking glucose levels in the wearer’s tears, taking around one reading a second with the goal of adding tiny LED lights to indicate when levels exceed a safe threshold.
In a blog post Google said it was working with partners on the technology adding that they ‘will use our technology for a smart contact lens and develop apps that would make the measurements available to the wearer and their doctor.’
Whilst some way from the dream of shrinking down a Google Glass type device onto such a lens it marks the first step on that road.
Previous bids to develop such lenses have failed to find a commercial partner to bring them to market.
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