Forget using your hands to control technology, that's old skool. A Swedish company is offering a taste of the future with the world’s first Laptop that can be controlled by the user’s eyes.
Tobii, a company that develops eye tracking and control technology, partnered with Lenovo to build a prototype computer that responds to eye movements as if they were mouse clicks.
For example, glancing at a specific icon can present more information about that subject, and applications with maps or photos can center the image based on what you’re looking at and text can scroll depending on the position of your gaze.
“It makes using a laptop more efficient,” Barbara Barclay, general manager of Tobii North America, told PCMag.
“What if you could just look to where you’re going to take your mouse and the cursor just appears there" she said
Lenovo and Tobii made 20 prototypes of the eye-controlled laptop for demo purposes. The sensors add significant bulk to the laptop design although the company says the technology is “a couple of years” away from being put into machines on store shelves.
I don't want to be pessimistic but I'd say maybe we will be waiting a little longer than "a couple of years" but you never know…
Source: PCmag
2 thoughts on “The World’s First Eye-Controlled Laptop Is Created By Tobii”
Integrating an eye tracker into a laptop is a great PR exercise but it has little useful practical application. Eye tracking will only become useful to the masses when integrated with augmented reality and wearable eye trackers
the disappearence of the mouse and touchpad!