THE TECH-LICIOUS: SMART CONTACT LENSES

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<a href="http://giznet.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/szk%C5%82a-kontaktowe-Google-408x272.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Google podpisało umowę z firmą farmaceutyczną, która ma wprowadzić do sklepów inteligentne szkła kontaktowe" border="0" src="http://giznet.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/szk%C5%82a-kontaktowe-Google-408x272.jpg" style="background-color: transparent;" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In January of this year, Google X Lab praised the development of <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">contact lenses</strong> with a miniature chip, measuring the level of glucose in tears.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Today, Mountain View has announced that it has partnered with one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, which aims to bring the product to market.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://giznet.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/szk%C5%82a-kontaktowe-Google-408x272.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Swiss company <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Novartis</strong> apparently sees in this type of sensors big money.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The company, which last year recorded the highest sales of all firms in the industry , intends to invest in the development of the technology developed byGoogle X Lab through dealing with ophthalmology subsidiary Alcon. <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Novartis</strong> has already acquired a license to technology developed by <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google</strong> and intends to introduce it to the market.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We are pleased that we can work together with Google to connect their advanced technology with our extensive knowledge of the biology and together satisfy unmet medical needs," said CEO of NovartisJoseph Jimenez.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It is extremely important for us to start from ophthalmology, to go beyond the existing boundaries of the treatment of diseases."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Our dream is to make use of the latest technology miniaturization of electronics, improve the quality of life of millions of people," added Sergey Brin.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We are pleased that we will be able to realize this dream together with Novartis."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="notranslate" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition to business plans to market lenses for diabetics, the agreement also provides for cooperation in research on more advanced contact lenses fitted with microchips.</span> <span class="notranslate" style="background: rgb(230, 236, 249); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Novartis suggests that such lenses may, for example, automatically in accommodating alleviate eye problems that arise in the case of presbyopia .</span></span></div>
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google has joined hands with pharmaceutical company and expected to launch smart contact lenses

In January of this year, Google X Lab praised the development of contact lenses with a miniature chip, measuring the level of glucose in tears. Today, Mountain View has announced that it has partnere…