Google contact lens embedded LED monitoring blood sugar within two years to market

It is understood that Google's cooperation with the pharmaceutical giant Novartis contact lens has reached medical requirements, is expected to be listed within two years, has been sent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval. More importantly, Google said the real-time monitoring of blood glucose contact lenses are not expensive, with the price of ordinary contact lenses, after a lifetime of users to buy a new blood sugar glasses can be.

As for the charging problem of contact lenses, Google said the glasses in a certain substance and the reaction of glucose in the blood when the reaction occurs, enough to ensure the daily use of contact lenses. And when the contact lens and the device wirelessly connect to transmit data, glasses can also be charged wirelessly. At present, the wireless transmission distance of 8 cm glasses, Google said this low power transmission harmless to the human body, and the transmission speed of 20 bits per second is enough.

Like Google Glass, Google contact lenses were also born in the Google X laboratory, but this time the field of Google's attention is more specific, diabetes. According to WHO (WTO) 2014 statistics, there are 347 million people worldwide suffering from diabetes, but also a global trend. In 2012, the number of deaths caused by diabetes was 1 million 500 thousand. WHO is expected in 2024, the total number of deaths caused by diabetes will increase by more than 50%.

Regardless of which type of diabetes, they need to regularly detect their blood glucose levels, and the most common way is the finger blood on a special test paper. "So the blood sugar test and pain and trouble, so many people with diabetes do not check on time. Google announced the launch of blood glucose glasses, said the plan.

In January 2014, Google Google X lab officially announced on the official blog contact lens program, said contact lenses in the circuit and the chip can be measured by the amount of blood glucose, blood glucose. And then Google also plans to embed LED in glasses. If the patient's blood sugar is too high or too low, LED will light up to remind.

In July of the same year, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis announced that its ophthalmic drugs and equipment manufacturer Alcon (Alcon) in cooperation with Google, and said that this cooperation is to be Alcon Google contacts commercial opportunities. According to the Reuters and the Wall Street Journal reported that CEO Jiang Muzhong Joseph (Jimenez) said the contact lens will create a lot of cash flow, and the product will be 5 years later, the official commercialization.

But the latest news is that the blood sugar glasses will be commercially available within two years.

In addition to blood sugar, Novartis said the lenses, presbyopic glasses, glasses can be used as a part of the treatment of cataract. However, because the contact lens is close to the eye, so eye disease patients or not suitable for use, otherwise the stability and accuracy of blood glucose testing will be affected.

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