Your beauty might lie in
the eye of the beholder, but if Google has its way, so will medical
diagnostics. In the first step towards designing nano technology products that
can monitor body functions Google has joined forces with pharmaceutical giant Novartis to advance the Silicon Valley giant's work on contact
lenses that can measure the wearers' blood sugar levels, a basic for people
with diabetes.
The move comes just
a day after one of the principals behind the technology, Babak Parviz, an
Iranian-American who also pioneered the Google Glass, left the company to join
Amazon. Google pressed ahead with the tie-up with Swiss multinational, which is
at the center of a drug spat with India. The two companies said Novartis's
Alcon eye-care division would license and commercialize ''smart lens''
technology designed by Google development team .
Announcement is the
latest in a trend of tech companies getting into the health and fitness domain.
Google already has a platform called Google Fit to measure heath metrics such
as sleep and exercise on devices running on its android platform headed by the
Indian-American Sundar Pichai.
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