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Google is testing a smart contact lens to help people with diabetes to measure their blood glucose levels. Specifically a lens will be a tiny wireless chip and miniature glucose sensor located between two layers of soft contact lenses that measure glucose levels in tears .

This was reported by Google in a statement, in which they explained that they are testing prototypes that can generate a reading of glucose levels per second.

In addition, they are also looking to use the lens as warning system for carrying the lens . A tiny LED lights could be turned on to indicate that glucose levels are above or below certain thresholds.

The future of intelligent lens

founders of this project, Babak Parviz and Brian Otis, warn that this technology is “still in its infancy,” but who have completed various clinical research studies that are helping to improve prototype and hope can become a “new form of disease management for people with diabetes.”

In this sense, they are treating the project with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates the approval of drugs and food.

But they say, “there is still much work to do before this technology can become a system that people can use. ” “We will not take this initiative forward ourselves,” have clarified ..

Moreover, seeking to find specialist partners to commercialize such products and who can develop applications to measurements sugar levels are available to the user of the lens and your doctor .

Diabetes, a global problem

Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects the pancreas and who have more than five million people in Spain. In the world affects one in 19 people and it is a condition that has the peculiarity of go unnoticed for many people who suffer, so that 6% do not know they have it.

One of the daily problems that diabetics face is to keep levels of blood sugar controlled, because if they are not, health complications can occur in the short and long term, as injuries eye, kidney or heart.

glucose levels change frequently by normal activities such as exercising, eating, or even sweat. “ Sudden rises or the dizzying descents are dangerous and are not something unusual , which is to be controlled sugar levels constantly” tell the promoters of the project.