A Danish company hopes to clinch deals with major mobile phone and tablet makers after developing software that enables users to control their devices by moving their eyes, it said Wednesday.
"You can use it for basic control, such as turning to the next page in an e-book, and playing games with your eyes," chief executive and co-founder of The Eye Tribe, Sune Alstrup Johansen, told AFP.
The software uses infrared light reflected from the pupil of the eye, which is recorded by the device's camera, enabling users to scroll or click on their screens with their eyes.
When you are reading an e-book and get to the bottom of the page, the software will know to turn to the next page, or if you look away from the screen it will dim it.
The Eye Tribe is made up of four PhD students who founded the company a year ago. They received $800,000 (615,000 euros) in funding in August to develop the technology.
The company plans to release the technology at no cost to other software developers early next year, Alstrup Johansen said.
"We are releasing software developing kits to developers so they can actually start developing applications. We intend to give it away, it won't cost anything," he said.
No doubt Steven Hawking could benefit from something like this.
I'm so excited by the many apps that are being developed which could help a variety of disabilities.
The simple AK Notepad app is helpful for the hard of hearing.
It has a voice-to-text selection which is fairly simple and accurate.
Get the AK Notepad Android app (★★★★¼, >250000 downloads)
Edited by Rogerdodger, 24 October 2012 - 10:14 PM.
