Google reveals smart contact lens

Google reveals smart contact lens

Google have introduce a new eye lenses, uses a minuscule glucose sensor and a wireless transmitter to help those among the world’s 382 million diabetics, people who need insulin inside their body. As they need this inside their blood and sugar. Google say they’ll take up to five years to design it and give it to the consumers.  The lenses contain two twinkling glitter specks that’s are loaded with tens of thousand of miniaturised transistors. This is one of the designs by huge companies to make glucose monitoring for diabetic patients more convenient.

• “We’re testing a smart contact lens that we built that measures the glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and a miniaturised glucose sensor,” explained the Google X project leader for the smart contact lens, Brian Otis.
• “We’ve had to work really hard to develop tiny, low-powered electronics that operate on low levels of energy and really small glucose sensors,” Mr Otis said at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters.

I think that Google want to do something very good for diabetic people, who are ill and losing their eye sight, as this might million of people in the future, but people will have to wait for five years for this to happens, so other company might to the same and copy the idea and try and produce it before goggle does it in the future, which might be a negative factor for the business.