{"id":33684,"date":"2017-01-20T23:44:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T07:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/googles-brin-hints-at-bright-future-for-smart-contact-lenses"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:54:44","slug":"googles-brin-hints-at-bright-future-for-smart-contact-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/googles-brin-hints-at-bright-future-for-smart-contact-lenses","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Brin hints at bright future for smart contact lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ffvu6Mr1SVc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am still waiting for mine. I cannot wait to the day I use my smart lenses to take pics, videos, login to view work email, etc. BTW \u2014 I look forward to day we eliminate email too.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google may have shelved Google Glass, its failed attempt to persuade the world that internet-connected spectacles were the next big thing, but it has not given up on the concept of smart eyeware.<\/p>\n<p>The internet giant\u2019s Verily Life Sciences unit has been working on connected contact lenses \u2013 or rather, eye implants \u2013 for some time, and Google founder Sergey Brin dropped a hint at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the technology may soon see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed on stage at Davos, Brin said that Verily had started working on a glucose sensing contact lens project some time ago, and hinted that the first products may come to market soon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltveurope.net\/651541\/googles-brin-hints-at-bright-future-for-smart-contact-lenses\/\">http:\/\/www.digitaltveurope.net\/651541\/googles-brin-hints-at-...ct-lenses\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still waiting for mine. I cannot wait to the day I use my smart lenses to take pics, videos, login to view work email, etc. BTW \u2014 I look forward to day we eliminate email too. Google may have shelved Google Glass, its failed attempt to persuade the world that internet-connected spectacles were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59039,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684\/revisions\/59039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}