Looking beyond Medicine
From: IEEE Spectrum - 07/25/2017
By: Diego Barrettino

Verily Life Sciences and Alcon already have a vision-correcting smart-lens
project running in parallel with their diabetes-monitoring lens effort. The
companies are working together on an autofocusing lens that would enable the
wearer to focus on something close-up, replacing the reading glasses that
older people often require.

An even bigger market could be opened up by smart lenses that include a
display. These lenses would let the user experience augmented reality, in
which data is overlaid on the wearer’s natural view of the world.

Read the entre article in:
Smart Contact Lenses and Eye Implants Will Give Doctors Medical Insights
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/smart-contact-lenses-and-eye-implants-will-give-doctors-medical-insights

Links:
Novartis backs off from 2016 date for testing Google autofocus lens
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-novartis-google-lens-idUSKBN13D246

Samsung is working on smart contact lenses, patent filing reveals
https://www.sammobile.com/2016/04/05/samsung-is-working-on-smart-contact-lenses-patent-filing-reveals