Google: lenses for diabetics - Republic

source: google

source: google

source: google

Peter Ko?cielniak 17-01-2014

Contact Lenses with an electronic sensor that measures glucose level engineers have developed a laboratory Google. The company is searching for partners who will help in the implementation of this gadget on the market.

It could be a revolution in the techniques of control of diabetes. Today patients to measure blood glucose levels, must puncture stab of a finger and use special strips and glucometers. Sometimes they do it irregularly and forget about the drugs, which makes their diabetes is poorly controlled.

Contact Lenses created in the laboratory for special tasks – Google X have to change it. “We wondered whether the miniaturization of electronics – we’re talking about systems and sensors so small they look like specks of glitter and the air thinner than a human hair – can be a way to unravel the mystery of glucose in tears and measure it more accurately” – writes Brian Otis and Babak Parviz on the company’s blog.

arose device equipped with glucose sensor positioned between two layers of a soft lens-forming material applied to the eye. How to write the representatives of Google’s prototype measures glucose levels once per second. Today diabetics using conventional equipment can measure only a few times a day. I always associated it unpleasant pricking a finger. The lenses are not only more accurate and safer, but also more comfortable for patients.

This is not the end. Built-in LED device can warn against too high or too low glucose levels.

“This is just the early stage of the project, however, a number of clinical trials help us improve the prototype” – emphasize Otis and Parviz. Google is already working with the American administration for food and drugs to the FDA in order to prepare the device to market. in the final , a commercial version of the sensors would be built, for example, optical lenses prescribed by an ophthalmologist. probably help the company specializing in home medical devices or optical lenses.

Information about the smart contact lenses can be found at the Google Blog Poland.