Google has ventured in the whole new direction of wearables by announcing a smart contact lens called “First contact” that can diagnose your sugar level. Yes you read that right! A smart contact lens prototype designed by Google detects the glucose levels of tears in the eye and measures the sugar strikes for diabetes patients.
The web giant announced the smart lens “First Contact” on Thursday in a blog post by the co-founders of the project Brian Otis and Babak Parviz.
“We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material.” The duo wrote in the blog.
The smart contact has a small wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor which are set in between two layers of contact lens. The prototype that is released by the company can take one reading per second and the build in LED sensor lit up every time the glucose levels are above average mark.
Although the First Contact is in very early stage of testing currently Google has already done rounds of testing before announcing the prototype in public.
“It’s still early days for this technology, but we’ve completed multiple clinical research studies which are helping to refine our prototype. We hope this could someday lead to a new way for people with diabetes to manage their disease.” The blog post by Google noted.
The company is apparent about the marketing strategy though as it clearly indicates in the post that Google will not launch this product in public by its own. Google is looking or partners in the medical field that can bring their product to the masses.
Although it will be too early to see First Contact playing a major role to help control diabetes we wish it works as good as it sounds when it come in public.
