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 ...

Google’s smart lenses get even smarter, with the company filing a new patent to add a circuit board and light sensors so as to verify a user’s iris fingerprint. Google also aims to design smart ...

The patent, filed in September 2012, was granted to the company on March 24. The lens, which has an uneven surface with a chip that can transmit information such as pressure, proximity and temperature ...