Friday, January 17, 2014

Smart contact lenses to measure glucose in tears - ABC.es

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still expected augmented reality glasses Google have not yet embraced the commercial-something nomenclature occur predictably along this course – the company behind the world’s best known search engine has already shown the last thing you baked in the depths of the kitchens of Mountain View: a smart lenses . A curious and not so futuristic device that would have as main target those suffering from diabetes, which would help to measure their glucose levels through tears from her eyes.

Parents initiative belong to the X division of the company , an elite and secretive group of minds that have also affixed his signature in other mills the Mountain View giant Google as the Glass or the “Loon project ‘, with the aim to bring Wi-Fi to remote areas. They say they have already tested a prototype that has a small chip and a tiny wireless sensor that fits between the two layers that compose the soft contact lenses.


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“We are testing prototypes capable of generating a second reading ‘ ensure Babak Parviz and Brian Otis , coauthors of this idea, warning” that still is soon “for the arrival of this technology, although they have conducted several clinical studies” to refine “these early beta models. The two researchers draw on the official company blog, this system could function as integrating class=”c3″> in the lenses that glow would warn that glucose has been exceeded or fallen below established levels. The data will arrive to a mobile, tablet, or smart watch.

“Many people I have spoken says that controlling diabetes is as a part-time” parents have the idea. They claim that even though it is known to “growing” magnitude of this problem, affecting approximately one in 19 people worldwide-, few actually are aware of the problems that means to live with this disease . “Although there are some that use glucose monitors, a sensor under the skin, everyone should prick your finger and get tested with drops of blood throughout the day,” recalls Otis and Parviz.

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