tech2 News Staff

Babak Parviz may not be the face of Google Glass or any of the crazy moonshot projects currently ongoing at Google [x], but he's the man who kickstarted the Glass madness within Google.

After having worked on Glass for more than three years, Parviz stepped down last year, but continued as a direcotr within Google [x] and now he has moved out of Google altogether, joining Amazon, according to a Google+ post. His bio on the site now reads, "I founded and led a few efforts at Google (among them, Google Glass and Google Contact Lenses are public so far prior to moving to Amazon and work on a few other things now..."

Amazon has only recently launched a smartphone in the US and has not shown much movement in the wearables or future tech space, where Parviz has so far flourished, so it's definitely a move worth keeping a track of. Is Amazon planning a push into this space? Parviz's move would certainly hint at it, since he has been instrumental in Glass and the other 'wearable' project Smart Contact Lenses.

In January 2014, Google announced smart contact lenses that could help users check their blood sugar level and monitor their diabetes. Given that the disease affects one in every 19 people in the world, the lenses have a huge market ready for them, if and when they become a reality.

Google wrote in an official blog post, “We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material. We’re testing prototypes that can generate a reading once per second. We’re also investigating the potential for this to serve as an early warning for the wearer, so we’re exploring integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to indicate that glucose levels have crossed above or below certain thresholds.”