Novartis, the Swiss healthcare firm, has announced it will license Google’s exciting smart contact lens technology, initially unveiled by the Google X team at the beginning of this year. This is the ...

It almost sounds like a top secret project: Novartis’ Alcon unit has licensed nascent technology from Google’s X division. The two companies intend to work on the smart contact lenses Google revealed ...

Just seven months after announcing its ambitious contact lens program, Google has announced a partnership with Novartis eye care division Alcon to license its still-largely-theoretical "smart lens" to ...

Google has unveiled a prototype of a “smart” contact lens that can monitor a diabetic’s glucose levels, potentially making diabetes self-management easier for the one in 19 people on the planet who ...