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Scientists Develop Glucose-Tracking Smart Contact Lenses Comfortable Enough To Wear (engadget.com)
A team of Korean scientists have developed a smart lens that could help diabetics track blood glucose levels while remaining stretchable enough to be comfortable and transparent enough to preserve vision. Engadget reports:
The lens achieves its flexibility thanks to a design that puts its electronics into isolated pockets linked by stretchable conductors. There's also an elastic material in between that spreads the strain to prevent the electronics from breaking when you pinch the lens. And when the refractive indices all line up, you should get a lens that's as transparent as possible and largely stays out of your way. The sensor in question is straightforward: an LED light stays on as long as glucose levels are normal, and shuts off when something's wrong. Power comes through a metal nanofiber antenna that draws from a nearby power source coil. That's about the only major drawback -- the low conductivity of the antenna means that you can't just tuck the coil wherever it's convenient. The co-author of the study, Jang-Ung Park, told IEEE Spectrum that a commercial version of the contact lens should arrive within the next five years.
You'll see.
cease fire stand down.. it only works if everybody does it.. see you there
Why would the LED be ON to signify 'normal'? Seems like the last thing I'd want is a light shining in my eye most of the time. Seems like a red blip for HIGH glucose and a blue blip for LOW would be great, or at least something similar.
Alternately, if you don't let the doctor remove your pancreas when needed, you won't have diabetes in the first place.
Of course, you may be dead, but that's a small price to pay for no diabetes, right?
Yes, some of us have diabetes for reasons completely unrelated to eating junk....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
I don't understand this. The light goes out when there is a poblem? Backward of everything else in the world? Who sees this light?
You'll want to scratch it out of your eyes but it's "comfortable enough" to wear!
Lenses that you can actually _wear_ and also you can _see_ something though it?
I'm flabbergasted. I guess the previous version were dark shot-glasses.
Why does it need to be in your eye? That seems like the most dangerous place for a glucose monitor. It's likely to risk infection or scratch your cornea or something. What about a glucose-sensing tattoo on your arm or something?
With a lot more details and illustrations. As the summary hinted, the big issue appears to be how close the wireless power coil has to be to the lens: 5mm in testing.
http://advances.sciencemag.org...
There's a lot of us who's own bodies attacked and killed off the islet cells within the pancreas, myself and millions of others...
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by that company that supposedly no longer innovates? https://www.visionaware.org/blog/visionaware-blog/googles-prototype-smart-contact-lens-measuring-blood-glucose-levels-for-people-with-diabetes-1418/12
T1 and T2 diabetics need much more information than a simple binary +/-.
To be useful, a glucometer must provide a continuous readout of your glucose level. Based on that number, 1) a T1 knows how much insulin to inject, or 2) a T2 knows how much excess glucose they just ate, so they can adjust their diet or medication dose.
Raising a binary flag is worthless. This company's gadget is a gimmick, intended to announce victory before a competitor can steal their thunder with a *real* product.
A high tech solution for monitoring blood sugar sounds good especially for type 1 diabetics -- but for most people with type 2 it would be better to just reverse the disease entirely.
Example books on how to do this:
https://www.drfuhrman.com/shop...
http://media.wholefoodsmarket....
As Dr. Joel Fuhrman says, most prescriptions for drugs for chronic diseases are just permission slips keep doing unhealthy behavior.
tl;dr -- Eat (whole) food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
And even Type 1 diabetes can be greatly improved by diet so it is more easily manageable with less complications.
Easier said then done of course. A good social support network and supportive family makes a big difference. Good luck!
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Then, whenever the wearer sees a huge cake, the lenses could blank it out.