Google Wants to Patent a Blood-Sucking Smartwatch

Just when you thought our data - driven life-style were sire a little weird , Google wants to make it creepy . The companyjust file a patent app for a “ phonograph needle - free blood haulage ” devicethat can be implanted in a wearable . It ’s the vampiric smartwatch you never need for .

All laugh away , the conception looks pretty interesting and possibly deeply helpful for diabetics . As withthe embattle startup Theranos , the fresh Google design is n’t just needle - complimentary . It ’s basically a really foxy finger - pricking gadget that ferment by blasting a gas pedal - powered microparticle into the peel and then draws a lowly ampul of blood into a pressurized container . The gimmick comes in a few different configurations , including the aforementioned lineage - suck wearable , and can be used to measure out glucose levels .

Google is n’t saying on the button what it require to do with this unexampled excogitation , if anything . “ We make patent of invention on a variety of ideas — some of those ideas subsequently suppurate into real products or services , some do n’t , ” the companytold The Verge . “ Prospective product announcements should not necessarily be guess from our patents . ”

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The sentiment that Google want to get in on the acerate leaf - free bloodline test plot should n’t come as a surprisal . When the search giantcreated its new parent company Alphabetin Holy Order to expands its non - hunting - relate businesses , there wasan contiguous emphasis on medical technology . In fact , the first new company created under the Alphabet umbrellawas spin offof the life sciences division at Google X. These are the folks behind hyper - futuristic technologieslike malignant neoplastic disease - go after microparticlesandsmart contact genus Lens that also track glucose .

So who knows what will happen with the new vampire watch . Since the aforementioned cancer - tracking microparticle engineering can also be built into a wearable , your 22nd - century phantasy of plant a computer into your wristthat will monitor your trunk functions is perhaps not as far off as you might ’ve reckon . Then again , wearables already do some crazy squat . The question is whether or not we want to give a technology troupe unfettered access to our most personal biologic information .

[ USPTOviaThe Verge ]

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