Google is to engage in health and pharmaceutical industry. To the great online sales of contact lenses want Google adding a completely new product that can make life easier for many of the world’s diabetics. Instead of several times daily measure their blood sugar by pricking themselves, the body’s sugar level measured in the eye’s tear fluid, thanks to a clever lens with tiny integrated sensor for glucose.
The news presented in California, addressed to diabetics who need to take insulin. From the lens sensor data is transmitted on sugar levels wirelessly to a reader whenever lens wearer wants. In the first instance, the life easier for all those who traditionally have to prick her finger to check sugar level before they take their insulin syringe.
These are a giant market, according to news agency AP. Worldwide, today nearly 400 million type 1 diabetics who follow their blood sugar to medicate right with insulin.
sugar reading lens started developing several years ago on the University of Washington, before Google X laboratory in California the past 18 months produced a prototype.
According to scientists the phones’ pioneering micro technology with semiconductor that has created the conditions for the lens which at first glance looks quite ordinary, but at a closer look, a pair of glittery threads – with tens of thousands of miniature transistors – and in its perimeter additionally an antenna function.
According to the researchers, it takes at least five years before the lens can come out to the clients as much development remains.
Google, however, are not the only ones to develop new glucose meter. A variant that measures sugar in the lacrimal fluid is going on also in a Dutch company, NovioSense. Other attempts are made with glucose monitors placed beneath body tattoos, and additionally refined even glucose measurement in saliva of other players.
Google has embarked on the right lens and the area of ??diabetes reported to be because there is a great potential to make money, with low-cost distribution and a large number of users. Today reported glucose monitoring convert 100 billion annually.
Present Google-lens measures the sugar without the visual field is affected, because the sensors are so peripheral to the lens to the pupil is not obscured. According to the researchers collect sensors energy from ambient radio waves, which is enough to every second capture and transmit an indication of glucose levels.
The first clinical tests have been conducted with promising results, but the lens is far from fully developed.
The so-called Google X laboratory in California is already well known for a prototype driverless car and a kind of balloons that slave sends the internet to areas of dropouts. Google’s idea is thus to pick up research that could become tomorrow’s big business.
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