Google secures partner for glucose-tracking smart contact lens

Google’s been dabbling in wearable tech for the last couple of years, with the most public-facing examples of its progress being Google Glass and Android Wear. However, Google is also quietly pursuing some other, arguably more significant wearable technologies.

Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis announced today that it will be licensing Google’s smart lens technology through its eye care division, Alcon. Novartis hopes to transform eye care, as well as combat overly time consuming and often uncomfortable diabetes management. Aside from Google’s glucose monitoring system, Novartis sees the smart lens being used for relief against presbyopia, which causes the eye to lose the ability to focus with age. The lens would restore the eye’s natural autofocus on near objects and would form part of the refractive cataract treatment.

Sounds fantastic, right? All that’s left now is for the usual regulatory suspects to give the deal their stamp of approval.

[source]Norvartis[/source]