Google creates glucose sensing contact lense

[Alison]

Apply a suitable level of scepticism and caveats about it being very early days, lots more work to do etc. But its interesting to see a mainstream tech player meddling in the medical device market. How long until diabetics are powered by Google?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25771907

[Dave]

I’m looking at the last two paragraphs. The way my hair is going, that might be the most useful!

[Tim]

You were scooped by Neville the Newshound two years ago:

Blood glucose reading contact lenses

[Tim]

Three years ago actually – sorry.

[Alison]

Darn that pesky dog.

The bit that’s new though is google. And that’s interesting because I think non medical firms have a lot to bring to improving medical tech.

Remember how great diabetes would be if it was done by Disney? http://www.shootuporputup.co.uk/2010/02/if-disney-did-diabetes%E2%80%A6/

Or Apple? http://www.shootuporputup.co.uk/2011/11/if-apple-did-diabetes

[Neville the Newshound]

What can I say? I’m just great at sniffing out a news story. (See what I did there? Using the word “sniffing”, you see that’s what we dogs do, sniff. Clever as well as informative, eh?)

[Dave]

I’m imagining the lens would give me something like this http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/terminator_vision.jpg showing BG and a trend arrow.

Can’t be that hard.

Shirley?

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