Contact lenses to monitor health

• April 29, 2024

Microsoft , together with the University of Washington, works on the development of a type of contact lenses that, in addition to offering information through augmented reality (RA) , warns about the levels of glucose in blood through the tears of those who suffer diabetes .

According to information from the blog of Microsoft , the benefits of these lenses would help people who suffer disorientation as a guide even inside buildings, to maintain an adequate consumption and food register, and to automatically identify people (among strangers) through a data bank reflected on the surface of the lens.

To learn more about this technology, here in GetQoralHealth we present you the video about the application:

These contact lenses represent a trend in technology called the Natural user interface (NUI) , which would replace the exams blood and provide information in real time to users and / or doctors.

Through small radios and antennas, the alert is issued related to the fluctuations in the levels of glucose and insulin , which would allow reacting quickly.

Generally speaking, contact lenses they could no longer be considered as a simple instrument to correct vision problems, because they would allow monitoring the body chemistry and health of people.

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