presbyopia

By  Jonah Comstock 03:23 pm October 26, 2017
Samsung has announced the latest spin-out companies to come through its C-Lab program, and two of the seven are mobile health companies: a phone overlay for people with presbyopia and a glucometer that attaches to a phone and uses its camera to analyze glucose levels. Samsung Electronics’ C-Lab in South Korea is an internal incubation program that first started in 2012 to help inspire a more...
By  Jonah Comstock 08:38 am September 8, 2015
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. Patent applications don't always presage exactly...