New revolution on smart innovations, these smart lenses can now monitor your health

California, March 9: Although the concept of smart glasses and contact lenses isn’t exactly new. New advancements have always shaped the way we come across technologies. Researchers have developed a smart contact lens that can monitor glucose levels through tears. The soft, flexible lens could eventually be modified to monitor other biomarkers, deliver drugs, or improve the virtual and augmented reality experience.

Many emerging smart lens technologies employ lenses that are both expensive and extremely brittle. They can impair the wearer’s vision or even cause injury, and measuring signals from these lenses often requires bulky equipment. However researchers have come up with research on a lens capable of measuring and monitoring glucose levels in tears. Not only is it softer and more user-friendly than other smart contact lenses, it is also the first soft contact lens to use a display pixel for glucose monitoring.

The pixels can access sensing data in real-time, eliminating the need for external equipment to measure the glucose. The glucose information is displayed through the LED pixel. When the system detects that glucose levels have crossed a certain threshold, the LED pixel in the lens shuts off, alerting the wearer to the concerning level.

On rigorous efforts of researchers, the research has been effective so far and therefore they hope the lens could eventually be used to monitor glucose in humans. This could be incredibly useful for people with diabetes, and it could also be used to screen for pre-diabetes, giving patients the upper hand in preventing diabetes and keeping track of their health.

On that note, if we bout to see the future This dramatic advance in smart contact lens technology could one day be a standard medical tool, allowing people to take their health into their own hands with comfortable, easy-to-use monitoring abilities.