Google X team - first up from Alphabet

The Life Sciences Team of Google X are the first to be announced as a company under the new Alphabet umbrella of Google.

You may have heard that this group is the one that has been working on smart contact lenses that would measure glucose levels through tears for people with diabetes. One person in every 19 on Earth suffers from diabetes, so this product would be a boon to society, IMHO. This project is just one of a number of others intended to better people’s lives. Other examples are a nono-diagnostics platform, the Baseline Study (intending to give the most complete picture of the human body ever created through genomic and molecular data collection) , etc.

The new company, yet to be named, was announced by Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, who would only say that its mission was to develop new technologies that would make healthcare more proactive. Brin named Andy Conrad, project manager of Google X, as the new company’s CEO.

No more information was forthcoming from Google, but the fact that this first separate company under Alphabet has been announced shows that Google is moving ahead with the plan and that the Life Sciences Team may actually produce a real consumer product in the near future.

To me, this is another example of Google’s commitment to using its wealth for things other than just profit. Namely, bettering lives. Yes, Google knows how to make tons of money, but few seem to look at the caring for others side, even though the projects are there for all to see. Just my opinion.

Source: Gizmodo

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Married to my best friend since 1987. We have six grand-children and three great-grandchildren. Began writing for Bane-Tech August 2014, due to an ever-growing passion for mobile and Android in particular. Computer programmer 1981 to 2015. Currently retired. Active You Tuber (Mobile Geezer: Twitter - https://twitter.com/MobileGeezer Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mobilegeezer/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MobileGeezer Google Plus - https://plus.google.com/b/106433550154529693622/?pageId=106433550154529693622). Sax player and singer in various bands (rock and R&R) since the mid 60's. Avid motorcycle rider (Gold Wing), bicyclist and exercise enthusiast. Extreme lover of driving and biking (motorcycle). The more thousand miles the trip, the happier I am as the driver. Dedicated, Bible-believing Christian who makes no judgments on others .