By John McCarthy

Google has announced its purchase of biotech company Lift Labs, the firm behind the tremor-cancelling spoon designed for those suffering from Parkinson’s disease among other ailments.

The California-based search giant acquired the firm on Thursday for an undisclosed fee, where it can now distribute the spoon, known as Liftware, one of many of the firm’s life-improving products, on a global scale.

Lift Labs has now been integrated in Google’s cutting edge research centre Google X, which was last month testing pilotless drone deliveries in the Australian outback as part of Project Wing.

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Source: The Drum