Those glucose sensing contacts are quite a lovely idea, aren't they?

It will be interesting to see if a major company jumps on board to take them into animal and human studies. That kind of stuff costs big bucks and takes time with no guarantees.. so it is too soon to start planning to buy these contacts. And they might run into an unforseen snag once people start testing them. But as a concept it is exciting and certainly seems to have potential.

Of course, what else the lab has planned is really interesting, too. It wants to develop contacts that will also offer the same color-changing benefits to monitor:

*sodium and potassium levels
*body core temperature
*lithium

And the scientists are currently trying to figure out if it is possible to monitor cholesterol levels with a contact lens.

They also see the potential for a military-type of contact that would be like the dashboard of a car in that it could monitor exposure to a number of things all at the same time (like anthrax, cyanide).

Photo time!! Rob sent these pictures of his kiddos, Emma who is in Kindergarten and Nicholus who is in the 4th grade. It totally takes me back to school photos when I was a kid. When I was really little I got into some cooking oil right before school and so my photo looks funny because my hair has this oily/stringy/clumpy patch. Good times.

Happy Thanksgiving!!! I'm anchoring the morning show and the 5, 6, and 6:30pm tomorrow. Whew.. :-)
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