Release date: 2014-07-18
Beijing time on July 16th news, according to foreign media reports, Google recently reached a cooperation agreement with the world's leading pharmaceutical and healthcare company Novartis Pharmaceuticals, the two sides will make full use of their technical expertise, and jointly develop smart contact lenses for blood sugar levels and correction vision.
Perhaps, you think Google's "smart" contact lenses are just one of countless whimsical ideas, or the kind of research projects Google's mystery lab GoogleX usually implements, but it's clear that Google is very valued for this project. In fact, Novartis, a world-renowned healthcare company, has licensed the technology to turn these vision devices into real consumer products.
Earlier this year, Google revealed that the company is indeed developing a wearable technology that can be applied to the medical field, but it sounds more like a dream and an unreachable goal. Google's contact lenses make the most of the tiny components that have built-in wireless chips and blood glucose sensors. The role of this smart contact lens is easy to understand: to help users detect blood sugar levels, and the method is simple: extract tear samples and transfer this information to the paired mobile device. Currently, blood glucose testing methods are required to puncture a finger through a blood glucose meter to collect samples. Therefore, Google smart contact lenses have broad application prospects.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals and its Alcon Vision Care division plan to further expand this program – there is no insinuation – covering all common contact lens use cases to correct vision or assist vision. In particular, it is imagined that this smart contact lens can help far-sighted readers regain partial autofocus capability for nearby objects.
At this time, we don't know how Google's smart contact lens prototypes can achieve this new goal, but Novartis believes that Google's technical expertise in electronic devices, especially in the miniaturization of electronic devices, will make a significant contribution to this collaborative project. . At the same time, Novartis and Alcon will be responsible for providing eye physiology and commercializing related products. According to a cooperation agreement between Novartis and Google, the two companies will work together to embed non-invasive sensors and microchips into smart contact lenses.
For Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the partnership has fulfilled a dream of developing a technology that touches the lives of people outside the Internet. For Novartis, the partnership allows the company to capture new trends in wearable technology in addition to the usual health-tracking wristbands, smart watches and smart glasses that are just beginning to penetrate the market. Both Google and Novartis have not proposed a timetable for the launch of future products, although Google may already be at the world's leading level in developing wearable technologies specifically designed to detect blood sugar.
Source: Phoenix Digital
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