Several Google researchers recently met with Food and Drug Administration regulators who oversee eye devices and diagnostics for heart conditions, raising the possibility the company is working on medical devices, Bloomberg reported. Several of the at least four Google workers who attended the meeting have ties to the secretive Google X research division that produced the Google Glass eyewear. And some have done research on biosensors, including contact lenses that monitor biological data, the news service said.
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