“Smart lens” not so Smart after All
February 19, 2019 | Terry Sharrer
You’ll remember the picture, at least, of a glucose sensor-embedded contact lens that Verily (i.e. Google Life Sciences) reported in development four years ago. As it turned out, the researchers could not track tear glucose as consistently reflecting blood glucose values. That shouldn’t matter so long as tear glucose indicates higher or lower readings; so there may be more to Verily’s decision to drop this project than meets the eye. MORE
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