Novartis, the Swiss healthcare firm, has announced it will license Google’s exciting smart contact lens technology, initially unveiled by the Google X team at the beginning of this year. This is the ...

Earlier this year, Wired.co.uk wrote about Google's invention of a smart contact lens that could monitor blood glucose levels through tear fluid. Now, the tech giant has invented another pair of ...

Next year, Novartis in collaboration with Google will begin human tests of a smart contact lens that aims to restore the eye’s natural autofocus, according to Reuters. Joe Jimenez, CEO of Novartis, ...

It almost sounds like a top secret project: Novartis’ Alcon unit has licensed nascent technology from Google’s X division. The two companies intend to work on the smart contact lenses Google revealed ...

Just seven months after announcing its ambitious contact lens program, Google has announced a partnership with Novartis eye care division Alcon to license its still-largely-theoretical "smart lens" to ...

Google has invented a new smart contact lens with an integrated camera. By virtue of being part of the contact lens, the camera would naturally follow your gaze, allowing for a huge range of awesome ...

The patent, filed in September 2012, was granted to the company on March 24. The lens, which has an uneven surface with a chip that can transmit information such as pressure, proximity and temperature ...

Google’s smart lenses get even smarter, with the company filing a new patent to add a circuit board and light sensors so as to verify a user’s iris fingerprint. Google also aims to design smart ...

Novartis ' Alcon eye-care division recently announced a new partnership to license Google 's experimental "smart" contact lens. The lens, which could theoretically detect glucose levels via tears, was ...

Google might be eyeing up a launch date for its smart contact lenses, as packaging designs for the product have emerged. The web giant previously said that the device could be up to five years away, ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis has struck an agreement with Google to develop "smart" contact lenses that would help diabetics to track their blood glucose levels or restore the eye's ...