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Itsy-Bitsy Solar Panel to Power New Google Lens

October 15, 2015 By Pugi Kohl

Itsy-Bitsy Solar Panel to Power New Google Lens

First smart glasses, now smart contact lenses? How are they going to get all that info on something the size of your thumbnail? Not to mention using solar power? Google thinks it can be done. The company has been granted a design patent for a wearable communication device shaped like a contact lens,  including sensors, memory and a microprocessor. Power would be provided by … [Read more...]

Alcon to Make Google Contact Lenses

July 15, 2014 By Dan Rosenbaum

We wrote a few months ago about a Google-developed contact lens that could analyze tears to determine glucose levels in diabetes sufferers. Novartis's Alcon division says today that it's reached a deal to license the technology and build them. Under the agreement, Google will develop the electronics, which will do the chemistry and send the information to a smart phone. … [Read more...]

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