glucose-sensing contact lens
Medella pivots, Dutch company NovioSense's eyelid sensor shows promise, other efforts are academic.
Two more smart contact lenses, for presbyopia and cataract surgery recovery, are still in the works.
A team of South Korean researchers are the latest to tout a smart, glucose-sensing contact lens.
Google and Novartis are working on two smart contact lenses, and news broke this week about both of them: A new patent application sheds light on how Google might power its glucose-sensing contact lens, just a week after partner Novartis told a Swiss newspaper it was on track for human trials in 2016 of an autofocus lens for presbyopia patients.
Thiel Foundation has announced that Harry Gandhi, cofounder and CEO of digital health startup Medella Health will be a 2015 Thiel Fellow.