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Google does not cease to amaze. This time, the company boasted that it is working on contact lenses for diabetics that monitor glucose levels and display simple information.

In today’s world, diabetes is a growing problem. According to estimates, Google’s worldwide one in 19 people have a daily struggle with the disease. Obviously can live with it, and it requires constant monitoring of blood sugar levels. While some wear on the body special monitors glucose sensor placed under the skin, it’s all people affected by diabetes need to puncture the finger several times a day to get the necessary result of a drop of blood. And this is, unfortunately, tedious and painful.

Therefore, researchers began to look into other bodily fluids – such as, for example, the tears – for their suitability for the determination of glucose. But the tears quite difficult to collect for research. I think that the study will be conducted in a device that is still immersed in the lachrymal fluid. Yes, Google X Lab also thought about contact lenses.

Over the past eighteen months in the laboratory Google X Lab works on the special contact lenses, in which a miniature wireless system comprising an antenna and a chip measuring glucose level, was placed between two layers of the lens.

– currently evaluating contact lens, which is built to measure the glucose level using a small wireless chip and a miniaturized glucose sensor, placed between two layers of soft material, which is composed of glass. We test prototypes that read data once per second. We study also how the glass could be checked as an early warning system for the person wearing them. We use miniature LEDs that light up to inform about the too high or low sugar level. This is just the early stage of the project, however, a number of clinical trials help us improve the prototype. We hope that someday we bring to create a new method by which people affected by diabetes will be able to cope with the disease – read the official Google blog.

developed by Google X Lab lenses are far prototype, but the company estimates that within five years, you can turn them into a product available on the market. To this end, Google plans to collaborate with entities that have experience in implementing similar products on the market.

prospect of contact lenses that measure glucose levels and warn the user is of course exciting, but a prelude to something much bigger – a few years of this type of lens could collect much more information, and above all display them directly in the field of view of the user.

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