How Google utilizes their Smart glasses that could detect diabetes
According to the Center for Disease control and prevention (CDC) diabetes kills over 83,564 people worldwide.
So Google X (A subsidiary of the Alphabet company) has made a prototype of the smart glasses that can not only make you look cool but can detect the amount of blood sugar in your blood stream for diabetics using only their tears.
“At this point we have a functioning prototype,” said Brain Otis the project head at Google X.
According to Otis, “The integrated circuits in the smart glasses have been miniaturized to the point that it looks like a piece of glitter integrated inside the soft contact lenses.”
The smart contacts uses tiny wireless chip and a monitoring glucose sensor which are embedded between two layers of soft contact lenses material.
These smart contacts will be powered by harvesting electromagnetic frequency in the air.
However, before you put on your Tin foil hat the radio waves use are non ionize which means that it will not be harmful to your body (for now).
Moreover, the smart contacts only use one microwatt to operate which is about a million times less than the power required to power our phones.
If the glucose level of a person rises or decreases then, the LED lights on the contacts will blink or the users will be notified through their smartphones.
In the words if John Busp, the chairman of the National Diabetes Program of the National Institute of Health and the CDC, “I think the Google X device could be a game changer.”
The smart contacts could transform the lives of people with Type 1 Diabetes and be non-evasive for people with Type 2 Diabetes.
However, we must remember smart contacts is still a prototype and the product itself will not be available to the public anytime soon.
For now, the best way to cure Diabetes is to avoid getting it in the first place so exercise and have a healthy diet.
As the old saying goes, “Prevention is better than cure.”
Source:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/introducing-our-smart-contact-lens.html
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