Google Granted Patent For Solar Powered Contact Lens

[engine]

Google has been granted a patent for a solar powered contact lens which would sense the "feature of the wearer" it's set to detect, such as glucose, lactose, urea levels, body temperature, or blood alcohol content.

Link to PDF [pdfpiw.uspto.gov...]

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Google Working On Smart Contact Lens For Glucose Measurement To Help Diabetes Sufferers [webmasterworld.com]

Note - Microsoft has been working on this for some time, but i hadn't seen any recent reports, unless i've missed them.

[lucy24]

As a longtime contact lens wearer with a family history of diabetes, I looked immediately for the one piece of information that was conspicuous by its absence: how this proposed technology would interact with the prescription contact lens that the user is probably already wearing. If I plow through the several thousand (!) comments in the blogspot article, will I find something informative from an optical lab?

[engine]

I would imagine the technology could, once properly developed, be integrated with a prescription contact lens, although i didn't see that covered in the info. Perhaps, initially, it's just a plain contact lens.