Items tagged with glucose

by Seth Colaner - Tue, Jul 15, 2014

Google Teams With Swiss Drug Maker To Make Smart Contact Lenses A Reality

Google’s mysterious “X” division was reportedly experimenting with contact lenses that have built-in technology to detect glucose levels in the wearer’s tears earlier this year, and the company has now teamed up with drugmaker Novartis to make the lenses a reality. According to Reuters, the... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Mon, Jun 23, 2014

Apple, Google, And Samsung Aggressively Exploring Glucose Monitoring With Wearables

Biometric monitoring via wearables appears to be the Next Big Thing, as far as the biggest tech companies are concerned. Samsung is on its second generation of smartwatches (with a new generation already rumored), Google is expected to reveal much more about its Android Wear wearable platform next week, and... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Jan 21, 2014

Sugar Battery Breakthrough Could Run Your Next Laptop On Mountain Dew

A new breakthrough at Virginia Tech could be the beginning of a new type of commercial battery production. Granted, tech companies make these claims on a regular basis -- but this one may be worth paying attention to in the long term. According to EurekaAlert, a research team led by Y.H. Percival Zhang has created a... Read more...