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What ever happened to that glucose monitoring contact lens that google/verily was working on?

• gregsadetsky 4y ago
  Mentioned in the article: “Google was working on (and then cancelled [0]) a contact lens that measured glucose levels in the tears and then communicated those levels with a small LED in the lens itself.” [0] https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/contact-lens-glucose-diabetes/ https://www.labiotech.eu/in-depth/contact-lens-glucose-diabe...
  • jthrowsitaway 4y ago
    Wow, that's the kind of thing that makes you feel like you've "arrived" in the future.
• rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y ago
  It's a really hard problem. There are perhaps a dozen experimental noninvasive methods to get a rough approximation of glucose levels, but none that work consistently enough and accurately enough to make insulin dosing decisions. For that you need fingerpricks or a subcutaneous CGM.
  • snarf21 4y ago
    I don't think we'll ever have safe CGM that isn't minimally invasive. Proteins are weird and you really need to measure blood, not a picture of blood through skin. We are only recently getting CGMs that don't need frequently recalibrated via a finger stick. I hope someone prove me wrong but it would be quite the leap forward in tech.