NTT Docomo, the Japanese cellular operator has shown off their eyeball-tracking earbuds at Mobile World Congress, which allow the control of MP3 player by using movements of your eyes only.
These earbuds ensure complete handsfree control of your MP3 player, which can track the movements of your eyeballs and convert them into commands for controlling your iPod. Using your eyes to control your MP3 player will be very useful while you’re at a silent place such as a library where you cannot use voice commands or even your hands to control the player in your pocket.
The concept is based on which retina carries a measurable positive charge and the cornea has a negative. The eyeball-tracking earbuds are able to detect the electrical potential while the eyes move around, and effectively read out what the eyes are doing in real time.
With these earbuds you can operate the MP3 player such as play or pause tracks, skip forward and backward and rotate the eyes clockwise or anticlockwise to raise or lower the volume. Watch the clip below for more info.
via gizmag
February 20th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Ha! I’ve no idea as to the tech behind this but am very impressed! It seems rather surreal – ear to eye … weird!
cheers for the post!
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