EDITORIAL COMMENT

‘Google Glass’ can be pioneer in a new technology era. Google Glass will be used in many different technological fields in the future. In the near future, it is going to be used for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes in medicine. Recently, it is tested for these reasons in a few studies. In one of them, Feng and et al. demonstrated a Google Glass-based rapid diagnostic test (RDT) reader platform capable of qualitative and quantitative measurements of various lateral ?ow immunochromatographic assays and similar biomedical diagnostics tests. They tested this Google Glass-based diagnostic platform using qualitative human immunode?ciency virus (HIV) and quantitative prostate-speci?c antigen (PSA) tests. For the quantitative RDTs, they measured activated tests at various concentrations ranging from 0 to 200 ng/mL for free and total PSA. This wearable RDT reader platform running on Google Glass combines a hands-free sensing and image capture interface with powerful servers. These servers run custom image processing codes. The reader can be useful for real-time spatiotemporal tracking of various diseases and personal medical conditions, providing a valuable tool for epidemiology and mobile health. In the near future, Google Glass technology will be candidate for diagnostic and therapeutic options, telemedicine applications, resident training, surgical training, patient communications, and procedure analysis as well as for faster access to information.