Smart Contact Lenses and Eye Implants Will Give Doctors Medical Insights
From: IEEE Spectrum - 07/25/2017
By: Diego Barrettino

Microsensors and flexible electronics in smart lenses offer a closer look at
diabetes and glaucoma

In 2014, Google, through its biology offshoot, now named Verily Life
Sciences, and the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis International, through
its eye care division Alcon, joined forces to design, develop, and
commercialize smart contact lenses for diabetics. If the project reaches its
goals, these lenses will spare diabetics from the daily finger pricks
typically used to measure blood glucose levels, instead employing embedded
microelectronics to measure glucose in the wearer’s tears.

Verily Life Sciences and Alcon 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.

Read the entire article at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/smart-contact-lenses-and-eye-implants-will-give-doctors-medical-insights

Links:
Google Working on Smart Contact Lens to Monitor Diabetes
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/devices/google-working-on-smart-contact-lens-to-monitor-diabetes

Verily Life Sciences
https://verily.com

Alcon
https://www.alcon.com

Related:
Noviosense Announces Successful Clinical Trial and Secures 4th Round
  Financing For Its Tear Glucose Sensor
https://www.mdtmag.com/article/2016/10/noviosense-announces-successful-clinical-trial-and-secures-4th-round-financing-its-tear-glucose