[dshankar]

Microsoft was working on similar technology 3 years ago [1]

It looks like Google poached MSFT's engineers to work on this -- Babak Parviz was working on this at Microsoft 3 years ago, and is now cofounder of the smart contact lens team at Google.

[1]: Functional Contact Lens Monitors Blood Sugar Without Needles (http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=150832)

[psbp]

This has very little to do with MSFT research. Microsoft collaborated with Parviz's research at University of Washington. He wasn't a MSFT engineer. He was a Professor at UW before he left for Google. His affiliation with Microsoft, and Microsoft's contribution, seems minimal.

[spiderPig]

Do you work for Google? You're unwarranted support aside, Microsoft does deserve some kudos for investing in his research. In fact, much more so than Google just because they were the initial partners/investors.

[kathleenj]

That's not what Babak said according to this pdf.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/stories/nu...

>Tan and Microsoft Research Connections have been great supporters of the project, Parviz said. Their willingness to explore and invest in the project was critical to advancing research and development of the functional lens. “A lot of people considered it science fiction,” Parviz says. “Desney and Microsoft Research were actually, very early on, convinced that this is perhaps a worthy cause. And they were willing to work with us, and support us. And I’m very grateful they did.”

[psbp]

By no means did I mean financial contribution, but the design and implementation of the project which seems to have been established by Parviz since at least 2009: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/ar-contact-lens/

[mikeyouse]

Notably, Babak was also the project lead for Google Glass until this past December.