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 ...

Google has invented a new smart contact lens with an integrated camera. By virtue of being part of the contact lens, the camera would naturally follow your gaze, allowing for a huge range of awesome ...

Google X, the secretive research lab famed for its work on Glass and Google's self-driving cars, has unveiled its next product: Smart contact lenses. The first smart contact lens, aimed at diabetics, ...

Just seven months after announcing its ambitious contact lens program, Google has announced a partnership with Novartis eye care division Alcon to license its still-largely-theoretical "smart lens" to ...

Next year, Novartis in collaboration with Google will begin human tests of a smart contact lens that aims to restore the eye’s natural autofocus, according to Reuters. Joe Jimenez, CEO of Novartis, ...

Earlier this year, Wired.co.uk wrote about Google's invention of a smart contact lens that could monitor blood glucose levels through tear fluid. Now, the tech giant has invented another pair of ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's no doubt that Google is becoming a full-fledged hardware company, but the latest Google X project is a lot different that tablets and smartphones — the company just announced that it's ...

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 ability to focus. 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 ...

Google might be eyeing up a launch date for its smart contact lenses, as packaging designs for the product have emerged. The web giant previously said that the device could be up to five years away, ...