The year 2014 will be the opening door for wearable smart devices, many tech analysts and experts say. Prequel to this, tech giants like Samsung and Sony launched their smartwatches last year. Samsung before that, introduced some compatible wearable accessories such as the S Band and Heart Rate Monitor for their galaxy S4 last year June.
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| Google Smart contact lens. Image credited to Muktware |
The smart contact lens has the healthcare sector as its main focus of application according to the BBC. The smart contact lens will use a tiny wireless chip and glucose sensor embedded in two layers of lens materials to measure and record per second glucose levels in tears; and an integrated tiny LED (light emitting diode) light would signal to indicate when glucose levels have passed certain healthy benchmarks, especially in diabetic individuals.
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| Google Glass. Image credited to Wikimedia |
One in ten people of the world's population will have diabetes by 2035 according to the estimates from the International Diabetes Federation. And with this potential technology many catastrophic incidents from sudden rise or drops in glucose levels will be averted as the suffering individuals would have a portable real-time per second reading of their glucose level because this smart contact lens will work with an application on smartphones and tablets; this also means that these individuals' physicians will constantly monitor their patients via smartphones and tablets.
Though this project is still in the experimental stages, Google said its working with the US Food and Drug Administration and other partners (to develop apps) to make it available in the market.
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