New Meaning for Hands-Free: Control Your Phone With a Just a Shifty Eye
- Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:21pm by
Liz Klimas
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Have you ever been walking down the street and thought someone might be talking to you until you realize they are wearing iPhone earphones with a sneaky mouthpiece connected to the wires? Well, a new level of confusion could soon be coming to Android phones.
With a new program that developers hope to have ready in 2012, we may start seeing people just stare at their phones without moving their hands. But they aren’t willing their phone to work through their brainwaves — they’ll be moving their eyes. “Senseye” uses a small camera to track the user’s pupils, analyzes the movements through a computer algorithm and performs the action the phone or tablet was directed to do accordingly.
Watch the prototype in action:
Learn more about the technology and see more demos:
Although eye-tracking devices are not widely used yet, it is not considered entirely new technology. Such technology has been used to help those without speech to communicate for years. Check out this story of a 9-year-old who uses a machine to speak for her, simply by selecting words and phrases with her pupils.
[H/T PC World]
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Melvin Spittle
Posted on December 9, 2011 at 9:46amThis can be integrated into combat weapons systems sort of like the Laser on the shoulder of the alien in Predator (ranging, target speed, temp, wind speed, azimuth, angle, altitude=a kill). This can also be done remotely from drones today.
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on December 6, 2011 at 5:46amHow long will it be with this technology until someone invents a porn app for your smart phone where you can literally undress someone with your eyes?
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on December 6, 2011 at 5:50am…you probably would go blind if you used that app too often
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 6:16pmOh great. Now people will be focusing entirely on their phone instead of driving. Then, while we now have the problem with ‘butt dialing’, we will soon have phones ‘watching’ us, eager to misinterpret casual glances.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 9:48pmYou are right. Now people will be continuously looking at trying to control their stupid Ipads with their eyes, instead of focusing on where they are driving.
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