As technology marches on, we get innovations like this that reduce medical waste, reduce user discomfort, and increase the control diabetics can exercise over their blood sugar.
Color-Changing Contact Lenses Help Diabetics Keep Tabs on Glucose Levels | Ecouterre
"A biochemical engineer at the University of Western Ontario has developed contact lenses that change color in response to spikes and dips in the wearer’s glucose levels.
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The nanocomposite hydrogel lenses, which could render those pesky e-waste-generating blood-glucose meters obsolete, will allow diabetics to monitor potentially life-threatening variations in their sugar levels without missing a thing. (Another upside: They’re ouch-free.)"
