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    Use Your Eyes Instead of a Mouse

    It's hard to imagine a computer you can control with your eyes, but the technology exists and should be available on store shelves in the next couple of years.

    Swedish company Tobii, a pioneer in eye tracking technology, has come up with a way to control the screen of a laptop or desktop with your eyes that's actuate within a quarter of an inch.

    The technology was first made available to people with handicaps, but it's progressed and will soon be available to the general public.

    Pretty soon you can read e-mails with your hands behind your head, scrolling up and down with your eyes. Or if you're playing FIFA soccer you can decide where to shoot the ball by looking at the upper left corner of the goal.

     
    • Shilo  •  Minneapolis, Minnesota  •  4 mths ago
      And here it comes... A#$%$ (Angry Blinker Syndrome) Your going to sneeze and your computer re-boots.
      • Chris 4 mths ago
        Sneeze + Blink + Head Jerk will become the new Ctrl+Alt+Delete
      • Delilah 4 mths ago
        lmao .... reboot
      • Curtis 4 mths ago
        Hahahaha, this comment is full of win.
    • Jonathon  •  4 mths ago
      What if you have a crazy eye?
      • krisyanna b 4 mths ago
        lol.thats a good one,i guess that could be quite problematic!
      • Vee 4 mths ago
        or a lazy one?
      • Alex K 4 mths ago
        I think you mean lazy eye...
    • Beast  •  Killeen, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      I don't like it. I'll keep my mouse, thank you.
      • rspm 4 mths ago
        but it does sound interesting
      • Christopher 4 mths ago
        Interesting indeed, but it won't replace the mouse any time soon. I mean.. how precise can it actually be when your entire head is not restricted from moving and has the potential to throw off the computer analysis of the slightest eye movement?
      • Vinny 4 mths ago
        I would own in wow if i could lock on and target with my eyes. Or any other video game for that matter.
    • Anonymous  •  Colorado Springs, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      What happens when two or more people are looking at the PC? Who gets control?
      • Lynn 4 mths ago
        i guess the one the light picks up So who do you get mad at the computer or the one who gets first eye contact
      • twitty-kitty 4 mths ago
        That's easy..."It's your turn, honey." "No it's NOT! It's your turn." "Ummm, no dear! It's YOUR turn...get back in here!" "I'm in the bathroom!! Blink already!!"
        "I can't...I've got to blow my nose!! Get off the pot and blink!!" :D
      • silence dogood 4 mths ago
        Oh,oh. This is going to be worse than who controls the remote.
    • Just Me  •  4 mths ago
      I don't know I just cant see it.
      • twitty-kitty 4 mths ago
        Excellent answer. Makes me realize that it's of 'no use' for a person that's visually impaired.
      • Robert L 4 mths ago
        You win the internet today.
      • Sugar 4 mths ago
        Good one! :-)
    • Aeolis  •  Fremont, California  •  4 mths ago
      Yeah, as if I don't already have enough eye strain staring at my computer.
    • Sid  •  4 mths ago
      OMG! they are trying to kill my mouse.
    • Rebecca  •  4 mths ago
      I understand making this for the handicapped, but for the general public??? Because clicking a mouse is entirely too much work for the able bodied. Pretty soon, we'll have levitating burgers because picking it up and shoving it in our mouth with our hands is entirely too much work. Maybe we'll also get something to chew for us. So much work... it's just... too much.
    • Dr.Johnson  •  Las Vegas, Nevada  •  4 mths ago
      They can have my mouse when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!
    • Fae  •  4 mths ago
      Great for the disabled. Not sure for myself.
    • geezer  •  Galveston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      My mouse is the only excercise I get.
      I'll become imobile.
    • Homer  •  4 mths ago
      I am sorry but I hate the idea, what if some one has a eye twitching. or sneezes etc
    • B  •  4 mths ago
      NOT GOOD FOR YOUR EYES
    • Marcus Dovey  •  Kent, Washington  •  4 mths ago
      I worked on this technology in college. The biggest problem with it was that you had to calibrate the infrared camera based on a very specific position of your face relative to the camera. Once your face moved from that position ,left/right or forward/back, the cursor became very inacurrate and was maddening to use. Imagine looking for the cursor, but the cursor moves away from your gaze as fast as you move your gaze.
    • NotMe  •  Tulsa, Oklahoma  •  4 mths ago
      No thank you.
    • Gene  •  Calgary, Canada  •  4 mths ago
      I am not going to buy the I-Pad, instead waiting for the I-Plant. No carrying anything just hear the phone ring in my head, blink my eyes to answer or hang up. Hook my brain up wirelessly to any wifi hotspot, check the weather, download movies and music and listen and watch them comfortably in my head without annoying any one else in the room. Plant tracking devices inside my wife, kids and even my dog. Then search for them with the implanted GPS in my head. Yeah baby technology is the wave of the future.
    • TWISTEDBITCH  •  Naperville, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      How flippin lazy have we become?
    • alfredo  •  Richardson, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      technology is technology,but i would rather keep my mouse, i hope they give me that option!!!
    • esco  •  Waterbury, Connecticut  •  4 mths ago
      they can make my eyes control the computer...but yet my car still runs on GAS
    • Seeker  •  4 mths ago
      Oh stop it, please. There are already too many changes that make our fairly new computers go out of date just as we have gotten used to using them.

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