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Primary domain: Research & Scientific Innovation (Scientific AI)Secondary domain: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (Agentic AI)Article type: Pilot & ImplementationTechnology: AURORA agentic AI co-scientist platformInnovation maturity: EmergingMission: ResearchBusiness impact: Could speed hypothesis generation and experiment selection in complex research programsAudience: Research, Business/Leadership, ITPublication date: November 2026Author / Contributor: I...
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Micro Phone Lens Turns a Phone into a Microscope
Turn your smartphone into a microscope. The Micro Phone Lens allows you to take images at a magnification of 150X using just a smartphone or tablet.
The lens attaches to these devices using an adhesive backing and in combination with the slides and sufficient, quality lighting, it allows users to take pictures at a fraction of the cost of a regular microscope. Simply press down the lens on to the camera lens, focus the device, and capture a picture or video.
Its features include:
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Contacts could help treat Glaucoma
A McMaster PhD candidate has harnessed a component naturally found in tears to develop a contact lens-based drug delivery system for glaucoma patients. Chemical engineer Myrto Korogiannaki has used hyaluronic acid to help get drugs to the eye from a lens in a controlled way. Patients with front-of-the-eye diseases, such as glaucoma, traditionally use medicated eye drops twice a day to treat their ailment. But those drops are incredibly inefficient as only about five per cent of the drug they car...
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Contacts lenses that changes color when sugar levels change in the blood
Smart contact lens, created by a University of Western Ontario professor, help measure blood glucose levels for people with diabetes.
An ongoing innovative research of a new Smart Lens by Jin Shang, a professor of biochemical engineering at the University of Western Ontario is a contact lens that changes color when sugar levels change in the blood.
Diabetes is a huge and growing problem affecting one in every 19 people on the planet. It is a daily struggle for people with diabetes to keep ...
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