Google creates glucose monitor in contact lens

[BlueStreak]

1. Did anybody bother to find out that most elderly people can't tolerate contact lenses

because tear production decreases with age?

I'm sure somebody will come up with a good technology here, but this probably isn't it.

About 10 years ago, there was a company that was "really close" to perfecting a device that could see through the skin and read the glucose levels optically without having to draw any blood. It looks like such a product was recently approved for use in Europe.

http://www.medgadget.com/2012/10/c8-non-invasive-optical-glucose-monitor-system-cleared-for-sale-in-europe-video.html

But then the company seems to have vanished.
http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2013/06/has-light-gone-out-on-c8-medisensors.html

Some people are saying (are you listening Faux News?) that maybe one of the big companies bought them out to kill the technology because selling test strips is so lucrative. I'd hate to think that is the case. There certainly is plenty of precedent where corporations have acted opposite the best interests of humanity because it was more profitable that way.