{"id":210635,"date":"2016-05-01T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=210635"},"modified":"2016-05-01T06:34:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T06:34:45","slug":"google-patents-smart-lenses-inject-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=210635","title":{"rendered":"Google patents smart lenses you inject into your eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google Glass may have been too clunky to succeed in its original version, but the search giant will find its way into your eyeballs one way or another.<\/p>\n

According to a new patent filing, the company has devised a method to inject a device directly into your eyeballs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Per the patent filing, the device is meant to replace your eye’s natural lens and is injected in a solution that congeals and attaches to your lens capsule.<\/p>\n

While the intra-ocular device is mostly intended to correct poor vision, it is so much more than just an permanent set of contact lenses or an alternative to surgery.<\/p>\n

As Forbes<\/em> reports, the device includes an electronic lens as well as storage, sensors, a battery and radio components meant to communicate with a separate, external device that has some additional processing power.<\/p>\n

The internal battery, the one that will apparently live inside your eyeball, will draw power from what the patent calls an “energy harvesting antenna.”<\/p>\n

Google’s focus on eyeballs started in earnest back in 2014, when the company filed a patent for smart contact lenses that included a very tiny wireless chip and the ability to monitor a wearer’s glucose levels.<\/p>\n

That patent moved closer to becoming a reality when Google partnered with healthcare company Novartis to help develop the technology.<\/p>\n

As for the competition, Sony has also jumped into the game with a patent for a smart contact lens that comes complete with a camera, zoom and aperture control.<\/p>\n

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Source: Engadget<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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