{"id":11958,"date":"2014-08-02T13:25:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:05:57","slug":"what-else-could-smart-contact-lenses-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/what-else-could-smart-contact-lenses-do","title":{"rendered":"What Else Could Smart Contact Lenses Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/contributor\/suzanne-jacobs\/\">Suzanne Jacobs<\/a> \u2014 MIT Technology Review<br \/>\n<br \/> Last week Google and Novartis announced that they\u2019re teaming up to develop contact lenses that monitor glucose levels and automatically adjust their focus. But these could be just the start of a clever new product category. From cancer detection and drug delivery to reality augmentation and night vision, our eyes offer unique opportunities for both health monitoring and enhancement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the time to put a little computer and a lot of miniaturized technologies in the contact lens,\u201d says Franck Leveiller, head of research and development in the Novartis eye care division.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/529196\/what-else-could-smart-contact-lenses-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Suzanne Jacobs \u2014 MIT Technology Review Last week Google and Novartis announced that they\u2019re teaming up to develop contact lenses that monitor glucose levels and automatically adjust their focus. But these could be just the start of a clever new product category. From cancer detection and drug delivery to reality augmentation and night vision, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1513,11,1499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-bionic","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64932,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions\/64932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}