Google glasses embedded LED blood glucose monitoring market within two years.

It is understood that Google cooperation with pharmaceutical giant Novartis lenses has reached the medical requirements, is expected within two years of the listing, has been sent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. More importantly, Google said the real-time monitoring of blood glucose of contact lenses are not expensive, with ordinary contact lenses of the price, the service users to buy the new "blood sugar glasses".

As for the problem of charging contact lenses, Google said the current sugar substance and tears react in glasses, to ensure daily consumption of contact lenses. And when the contact lenses and equipment wireless data transmission, glasses can also be charged by wireless. At present, the wireless transmission distance glasses is 8 cm, Google said this low power transmission is harmless to the human body, and the transmission speed of 20 bits per second is good enough.

Like Google Glass, Google Google X lenses also born in the laboratory, but this time Google more specific areas of concern, is diabetes. According to the WHO (WTO) 2014 statistics, the world 347 million people are suffering from diabetes, and a global trend. In 2012, the number of deaths directly lead to diabetes was 1 million 500 thousand. WHO is expected in 2024, the total number of deaths caused by diabetes will increase by more than 50%.

No matter what type of diabetes, they all need to regularly check your blood sugar level, and the most common way is to drop in the special test finger blood. "So to measure blood sugar with pain and trouble, so many people with diabetes do not check." Google announced the launch of "blood sugar glasses" plan said.

In January 2014, Google officially announced the Google X laboratory contact lenses plan in the official blog, said circuit and chip contact lenses can be through blood sugar tears, measured the blood glucose values. But then Google also plans to embed LED in glasses. If the patient's blood sugar is too high or too low, LED can be turned on to alert.

In July of the same year, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis announced that its ophthalmic drugs and equipment manufacturer Alcon (Alcon) in cooperation with Google, and said that this cooperation is to be Alcon Google contacts commercial opportunities. According to the Reuters and the "Wall Street journal" reported that Jiang Muzhong (Joseph Jimenez) CEO Novartis said this lens will create "cash flow", and "products will be in 5 years after the official commercial.

But the latest news recently obtained is "blood sugar glasses" will be listed in the business within two years.

In addition to blood sugar, Novartis said the lenses, presbyopic glasses, glasses can be used as a part of the treatment of cataract. But because the contact lenses are close to the eyes, so eye disease or not suitable for use, otherwise the blood glucose detection accuracy and stability will be affected.

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