Take two video-game console cameras and one pair of horn-rimmed glasses and for around $30 you have a device that will allow you to control a computer or, potentially, even a wheelchair with your eyes.
Previously, if you wanted to buy similar eye-tracking equipment it would have cost you upwards of $8,000. Now, scientists in London have pioneered a device, the GT3D, using components anyone of us can buy from the shopping mall.
The breakthrough could help millions of people suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy and, potentially, opens the door to a new era of hands-free computers, allowing us to use them without a mouse, keyboard or touch screen.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/24/tech/mci-eye-tracking-gadget/index.html?hpt=te_r1
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That sounds cool, I might have to hit the shops!
This is crazy awesome! This technology would be so helpful for people who have muscular disorders like you have stated. The only downside of this technology would be that we would have to constantly wear really big glasses all the time.
Wow that's AMAZING!!! Before computers and hand held devices were replacing paper and now we won't even have to use our hands! That is pretty cool! I remember when i was a kid and used to imagine the world no longer having to lift a finger, now that won't have to be imagined!