We have it away that the contest between technical school companies was fierce , but who knew that Google was actually out for blood line ? The Mountain View , California company has of late filed a patent of invention for a smartwatch that can excerpt origin from a person without using a needle .
The system utilize a pressure cask to extract the rip . The air in the barrel is evacuated , and a trigger shoots a " microparticle " ( IFLScience has postulate Google for elucidation on what this is ) at ultrasonic amphetamine towards the bbl ’s opening , which is positioned on the wearer ’s skin . The microparticle , which is smaller than a human hair , creates a minuscule cut in the skin , and the negative - pressure barrel suck in the little droplet of blood escaping from the cut .
There are very few particular on the type of analysis do on the blood and , according tothe patent , the smartwatch wo n’t be doing the depth psychology itself .
“ In a distinctive scenario , a person ’s blood is run and either sent to a science laboratory or input into a handheld examination gadget , such as a glucose metre , where one or more tests are do to measure various analyte levels and parameter in the roue , ” the patent state .
The main software for this technology is the management of condition that require regular and frequent blood testing , like diabetes . Googlesays that " such an program might be used to withdraw a small amount of parentage , for example , for a glucose test " . mass suffering from diabetes have to bite their finger several time a day to test the amount of glucose they have in their blood .
According to theWorld Health Organization , 9 per centum of adult worldwide live with diabetes , and an estimated 1.5 million people died from it in 2012 . This class Google has developeda impudent contact lensthat , among other feature of speech , can supervise the sugar level in the blood of the wearer .
file a letters patent does n’t think of that Google is actually go after the blood - sampling smartwatch , though . “ We hold patents on a variety of melodic theme – some of those approximation subsequently mature into real products or services , some do n’t , ” a voice for the companytold The Verge . “ Prospective product announcement should not necessarily be infer from our patent . ”
[ H / T : The Verge ]
