July 13, 2012
A new device could allow millions of people suffering from conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries and amputations to browse the Web and write emails using just their eyes, according to researchers from Imperial College London.
A new device could allow millions of people suffering from conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injuries and amputations to browse the Web and write emails using just their eyes, according to researchers from Imperial College London.
The device, composed from off-the-shelf materials and costing about $60, detects exactly where a person is looking by tracking their eye movements.
Someone can control a cursor on a screen just like a normal computer mouse and can click on items by winking.
The glasses are made with two video game console cameras that constantly take pictures of the eye to determine where the pupil is pointing.
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