Do Google's Smart Contact Lenses Portend A Glassless Future?

Google's new smart contact lens project that acts as a non-invasive glucose monitor could be a godsend to the millions of sufferers of Type I diabetes. For non-diabetics, the lenses could portend an idealized version of our wearable future.

Google announced its work on the smart contact lens on its official blog late Thursday. The project is being developed at Google X, the secret laboratory that has also incubated projects such as Google's self-driving car and Google Glass.

The idea behind the project is to find an alternate way to test and monitor blood glucose levels that doesn't require the user to frequently prick a finger and test their blood with a monitor. A contact lens that would be able to collect and test tears for glucose levels could be a way to limit the invasive nature of finger pricks — while also helping diabetics test more frequently so that they can adjust their insulin intake accordingly. Read more...