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The Google X project is now officially in lock step with healthcare giant Novartis, the parent of Alcon, which produces some of the most-widely used contact lens products on the market, including Air Optix, FreshLook and Dailies. Novartis will work on turning Google's lab project into smart contact lenses for people around the world.

Even if we have the best intentions for keeping in contact with old friends, former colleagues and random acquaintances, as our social networks grow, it can be hard to follow through. Here are five apps that try to make it a little easier.

google says it wont let out user data to sites that wont give its user data back (facebook is the biggest "sinner"). im sure it has something to do with the social network they are rumored to be creating 

a mobile productivity app that analyzes data from a user's mobile calendar and applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance meetings and events throughout the day. Specifically, it's designed to find and neatly organize in context everything the user needs to be fully prepared, including contacts, relevant emails, and related documents

microsoft accounts now permit Sina Weibo connectivity. allows chinese users of the platform to see Weibo contacts in WP's People hub or share direct links to cloud-stored files.

display personalized relevant information about the caller

When Instagram users @mention a social contact and then tweet the photo, Instagram will automatically translate the user's Instagram handle to his or her Twitter handle.

"Facebook is making strides towards becoming a multi-media communication juggernaut, its head of Messenger David Marcus announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Out of Messenger's one-billion users, 300 million people use its audio and video calling features each month. That's around the size of Skype's entire user base. Facebook is uniquely well-suited to disrupting traditional home and mobile phone voice calling and their successor, video calling. It has the most complete social graph of family, friends, and acquaintances - going beyond what's in most people's phone contacts. It has a one-billion user chat app where people are already spending tons of time. And it has the technology infrastructure to support high-bandwidth transmissions."

a paint that lets you control electronic devices.

"Google Play presents: Steven Spielberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in their first ever Hangout On Air where they will be exclusively premiering the trailer for their upcoming movie, Lincoln. If you want to be one of the lucky fans to join the hangout please: -Let us know how we can contact you here http://goo.gl/ApTvq. -Upload a short video to your YouTube channel with the #lincolnhangout tag explaining who you are, why you are interested in "Lincoln" and what you would like to ask Spielberg and Gordon-Levitt -Reshare this G+ event"

there is apparently a service dubbed Stalkbook developed by MIT graduate, Oliver Yeh, that lets you view that person's profile, photos, contact info, etc. simply by letting you view that profile under the guise of another Facebook user.

After downloading the free Blippar app on iPhone or Android, customers were able to 'blipp' any ten-pound note in circulation by opening the app and holding their phone over the note. An animated Queen, and other members of the Royal Family, then appeared on the screen and voiced opinions on the latest football matters. The UK's central bank has now contacted the bookmakers insisting they withdraw the promotional campaign, a spokesperson confirmed: "according to the Bank of England we've broken the law."

You order NFC cards from Moo, specifying what you want the NFC tag to do. It could just contain contact information, but it can also include actions like presenting a video, or an app download, or your latest tweets. When you hand someone your card, and they tap it with an NFC-enabled smartphone, the preprogrammed magic happens.