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In the news | International Examiner
Local Scientists Develop Contact Lenses to Help Diabetics
Tan and his team are experimenting with contact lenses. With microchips and computer circuits, researchers are using tears to gain an easier reading of blood-sugar levels, particularly important for diabetics.
In the news | ASweetLife
Information-Rich Eyeballs? Talking to Microsoft’s Desney Tan about the Functional Contact Lens
Tom Cruise’s futuristic contact lenses in the new Mission Impossible movie may not be as far off as you think. Desney Tan and Microsoft’s Computational User Experiences group have formed a collaboration with Professor Babak Parviz and his Bio-Nanotechnology Lab…
In the news | GizMag
Microsoft Developing Electronic Contact Lens to Monitor Blood Sugar
We’ve heard of experimental contact lenses that can non-invasively monitor the blood sugar levels of diabetes sufferers before, but where prior research relied on chemical reactions inducing color-change in the lens, new joint research by the University of Washington and…