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Google is searching for a better way for millions of diabetics to manage their disease by developing a contact lens that monitors glucose levels in tears.

The contact lenses are the latest project from Google’s secretive X lab that also came up with the driverless car, the Internet-connected eyewear Glass, and Project Loon, which is using balloons to bring the Internet to far-flung places.

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A smart contact lens has been developed by Google to measure the level of glucose in tears using a miniature glucose sensor and wireless chip embedded in the lens.
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