Novartis, the Swiss healthcare firm, has announced it will license Google’s exciting smart contact lens technology, initially unveiled by the Google X team at the beginning of this year. This is the ...

The patent, filed in September 2012, was granted to the company on March 24. The lens, which has an uneven surface with a chip that can transmit information such as pressure, proximity and temperature ...

When will Novartis and Google begin testing the autofocus contact lens they have been developing? Well, there’s still no clear date in sight. The pharmaceutical company announced late last week they ...

Google’s smart lenses get even smarter, with the company filing a new patent to add a circuit board and light sensors so as to verify a user’s iris fingerprint. Google also aims to design smart ...

Google has unveiled a prototype of a “smart” contact lens that can monitor a diabetic’s glucose levels, potentially making diabetes self-management easier for the one in 19 people on the planet who ...

One day, perhaps in the not-too-distant future, our bodies will be punctuated by an array of chips and sensors, devices that will constantly mine us for data about our health. Now researchers at the ...

Google is testing prototypes of a “smart” contact lens that will make it easier for diabetes patients to monitor their blood sugar levels and stay healthy. Project leaders Brian Otis and Babak Parviz ...

Yesterday, Google announced that it is working on developing "smart" contact lenses that can assess glucose levels in your tears. If they work, the lenses would provide diabetics with an alternative ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis has struck an agreement with Google to develop "smart" contact lenses that would help diabetics to track their blood glucose levels or restore the eye's ...