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Alongside improving your vision, a new smart contact lens design could monitor for conditions including diabetes, heart disease and stroke, a study has reported.
Researchers from the UK, US and China developed the lens, which features a mesh sensor layer that can measure levels of light, temperature and even glucose in tears.
The latter has use beyond monitoring for diabetes, the team said, with complications of stroke and heart disease closely related to disorders of blood glucose regulation.
The design, the team have said, does not impair the wearer s vision or ability to blink, and could be adapted in future to facilitate retinal function tests as well.
Appeal to reopen dealerships as automotive industry enters critical month with jobs hanging in the balance
4 February 2021 • 5:30am
Sales of new cars plunged 40pc in January to mark the worst performance in half a century, according to preliminary data.
Just 90,249 new cars were registered in the first month of the year, the lowest level since 1970, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
A combination of dealers being forced to close their doors because of the latest lockdown and faltering consumer confidence are to blame for the decline.
The dire figures are expected to increase calls from the industry to be allowed to reopen showrooms under Covid-secure conditions to avoid job losse, with the decline underlining the pressure on the automobile sector.
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UK carmakers after Brexit: a race to attract battery production
Manufacturers are less concerned about tariffs and supply chains than the switch to mass production of electric vehicles
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4 Feb 2021 • 8 min read
From Tokyo to Paris to Detroit, the headquarters of the world’s major carmakers let out a collective sigh of relief when Britain signed its last-minute deal with the EU on Christmas Eve.
The dreaded prospect of tariffs, which would have crippled the industry and jeopardised Britain’s fragile smattering of auto plants, had been avoided.