Google’s Smart Contact Lenses Are One Step Closer to Reality

The newly independent group will be led by current Life Sciences project manager Andy Conrad, a molecular biologist who joined the X Labs project in 2013, now as CEO of the business.

The Life Sciences department will perform research and development (R&D), and employ programmers and individuals with connections to the healthcare, oncology and optics industries.

“While the reporting structure will be different, their goal remains the same”, Brin wrote in the Google+ post.

The contact lens project was one of Google’s “moonshot” projects, leaving little certainty that it would ever move from concept to reality.

Moreover, Google will now offer its data on dengue fever and flu to institutes such as Boston’s Children Hospital and Centers for Disease Control and Preventions’ Influenza division. The move essentially signals strong belief on the life sciences initiative’s becoming successful as the company continues to look for other future revenue generating opportunities.

“Three years ago we embarked on a project to put computing inside a contact lens – an immensely challenging technical problem with an important application to health”, he said.

“I am delighted to announce that the life sciences team is now ready to graduate from our X lab and become a standalone Alphabet company”, Google cofounder Sergey Brin announced last night. The efforts it has spawned include a nanodiagnostics platform, a cardiac and activity monitor, and the Baseline Study.

The new Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s plan gives co-founders Larry Page and Brin an opportunity of to return to their roots as entrepreneurs and innovators taking care of all the moonshot programs.