Google Smart lenses-Next Wearable Gadget For Diabetes Patients

Google has reduced a chip and sensor system so small that it can be embedded in a contact lens. Google is making a big change in the tech industry with such a revolutionary wearable tech gadget. First, they have made Google GLASS and now it is Google Smart Lenses.

Google team said that they are testing a “smart contact lens” that will be helpful to measure glucose levels in tears and also said that it is also working on embedding tiny LED lights in the lens so that it could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain limits.

The Google smart lens was designed by a team of Google’s chip designers, software engineers, polymer chemists and electrical chemists from Google X, the company’s secret in-house research section that have also designed other projects like self-driving cars and Internet-connected eyewear.

As per the IDF (International Diabetes Federation) report, ten from a hundred people across the world’s population are estimated to have diabetes by 2035.

Diabetes sometimes do not check their glucose levels because those checks are usually painful, such as pricking a finger to do blood testing. Researchers have been searching for less invasive ways to check glucose, through sweat, saliva, urine or tears. Many diabetes sufferers said that managing their diabetes is like having a part-time job.

Google’s smart lens project is developed to measure the glucose level of the wearer’s tears, once every second. It will be a non-invasive way for diabetes patients to keep their blood sugar levels in check, rather than puncturing their skin to tale sample of their blood several times per day by a tiny wireless chip and glucose sensor which are embedded between two layers of soft lens material.

It’s a challenging task to measure glucose levels in the body with tears as one of the main issues is that there’s not much of the liquid readily available and it is difficult to collect.

Google Smart lenses-Next Wearable Gadget For Diabetes Patients

The Google team has done “multiple studies” to test the functionality and comfort of the lens and explore how tear glucose correlates with blood glucose, specifically in people with diabetes. It has also talked about the technology with the Food & Drug Administration.

Google said that, it works with the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) of US to bring such product to general people use and also added that it would search for partners “who have expertise in bring such a product to market”. The Google smart contact lens project is “completely different” from Google Glass said by Otis.

Google has made wondered about tiny electronics, think chips and sensors so small that they look like bits of glitter and an antenna thinner and more fit than a human hair. It might be a way to break the mystery of tear glucose and measure it with higher accuracy.

Google said that it has no objective of producing and selling such an excellent medical device it has built. It wants to promote the work it has done so far in the expectation of finding partners among companies that are connected with medical devices and vision products.

Because of the pain, blood, and overall inconvenience of today’s options, many patients simply don’t check their blood sugar enough — and thus don’t properly adjust their lifestyle and treatment.

If new devices like Google lens’s work than people could take as many glucose readings as they want per day without finger sticks and they could avoid the highs and lows of diabetes level, and ultimately the long-term problems of the disease like heart attacks, blindness and kidney failure.