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Google wants to fix your eyesight with an electronic eyeball injection (Googlicious)

2016-05-03
what's up Brian Tong here with everything Google we can pack inside of a show now we've heard about Google's prototype smart contact lens that can measure glucose levels for people with diabetes it still hasn't hit the market but Google is not stopping there a new patent filing by the big G reveals they're working on a vision correcting electronic device that needs to be injected directly into your eye that's right your eyeball now the device would be injected in fluid and then solidifies once it's in the eye the goal is to cure shortsightedness by removing someone's inferior biological lens and replacing it with a motorized one the new electronic lens would help in the process of focusing light on the eyes retina now the device will have storage sensors a radio battery and electronic lens and it gets power wirelessly from an energy harvesting antenna crazy now it's all fascinating stuff and we'll be following this to see if this pan ever really becomes a reality it's not nearly as impressive but still impressive new tech from LG is bringing a display panel with an integrated fingerprint reader that means no more physical buttons for a fingerprint scanner LG subsidiary Innotech has developed the under glass fingerprint module and claims the scanner only adds 0.3 millimeters to the panel's overall thickness the new panel is reportedly ready to start production as early as this year and LG is already in talks with handset manufacturers to have them commercially ready within the year all right Google keyboard 5.0 for Android gets a major upgrade with design tweaks and new customizations a new emoji and numbers button on the bottom left will bring up the keyboards for them quickly and a bar on the top of the keyboard will now even suggest emojis for you there's a new one-handed keyboard option in the settings now for either right or left hand operation and you can even select between five different keyboard Heights depending on what you prefer and the update is rolling out now to the Play Store also YouTube is getting an all new material design look and feel Android police reports that the facelift is an a/b testing but a new toolbar featuring the search box is present across all YouTube pages there's a hamburger menu on the left side that slides out to view things like your home trending in history and the share button is a pop-up box everything looks really cleaned up here and it's a fresh and modern look for YouTube and finally ladies all five of you watching this hopefully more if the SmartWatch designs out there have done really nothing for you because they aren't even trying to appeal to you Huawei is giving it a try with two new variants of the Huawei watch called the jewel and the elegant both models are available now and bring you know a little bling-bling style the elegant starts at $4.99 and the jewel starts at $5.99 alright that's gonna do it for this week you can email us at Google it's just at cnet.com or tweet me at Brian Tong thanks so much for watching we'll catch y'all next time for some more of that Google Isha's do delicious
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