{"id":14716,"date":"2014-01-19T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T11:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14716"},"modified":"2014-01-19T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T11:27:38","slug":"contact-lens-monitors-glucose-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14716","title":{"rendered":"Contact Lens Monitors Glucose Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story on the Beeb <a title=\"Google unveils 'smart contact lens' to measure glucose levels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-25771907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports that Google is testing<\/a> a \u201csmart\u201d contact lens which can help detect glucose levels in tear fluid.<\/p>\n<p>If left at that, it sounds like a good idea. But the report adds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed certain thresholds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google really can\u2019t help itself, sometimes. I guess we should be grateful that technology isn\u2019t yet advanced enough for the things to contain a camera \u2013 though I will lay odds that Google is already looking to integrate this with Google Glass, which would mean it DOES have a camera capability. I can also think of <a title=\"Google Glass \u2013 And So It Continues\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least one crackpot in America<\/a> who will be at the front of the queue to be a beta tester.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long it will be before your contact lenses start sending you spam based on what you\u2019ve been looking at?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story on the Beeb reports that Google is testing a \u201csmart\u201d contact lens which can help detect glucose levels in tear fluid. If left at that, it sounds like a good idea. But the report adds: The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90,87,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related","category-news","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}