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February 25, 2010

Eye Controlled Mp3 Player

A company in Japan has developed headphones that sense eye movement. Look right to left to pause your music, roll them clockwise to increase the volume. NTT DoCoMo, the company who created the new technology, doesn't have plans yet to market or sell them, but if this catches on we could soon see some pretty crazy eye moving in public.

They work by sensing tiny changes in electric charge; apparently the cornea in our eyes has a positive charge, and changes in charge can be detected as far away as your ears.

I'm sure there will be a way to distinguish actual commands, because if not, there would be a lot of eye movement done to correct inadvertent commands...

Posted by pajaro at February 25, 2010 9:00 AM