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When we tried out a prototype of Tobii’s eye controller this time last year, it made us believe in technology again. Unlike many prototypes, though, it’s now a real thing.
Tobii has announced the launch of REX: a USB-connected device that allows computers to be controlled using Gaze UI. That software lets users navigate, zoom, select and scroll using their eyes alone—and it worked a dream with Windows 8.
The device itself is little larger than a pen, and sits at the bottom of a PC screen—as pictured below—in order to track eye movements. It works with any computer running Windows 8. The good news is that Tobii plans to be shipping the thing to consumers this year; the bad news is that it expects the first production run to provide just 5,000 units. So, if you want one, you’ll have to act quickly when they’re released.
Or, if you feel so inclined, you could get your hands on the special developers edition, baked into a laptop (above) and available from today, to test out the device and its capabilities. But that’ll set you back around £700. Currently there’s no word on pricing for the consumer edition. [Engadget]
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I’ve already accepted that computer use will make my legs atrophy. Looks like my arms are going to join them.
Not if you are watching certain “movies”. You will need your hand then.
Make sure you swap every so often.
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I’d always wondered why it was called a fiddler crab.
But I already need both to handle it.
Which begs the question of why you’d even need to use your hands at all…
Oh, and here’s a tidbit for you privacy conspiracy theorists thinking that Facebook/Instacrap, etc is bad.
As an eye-tracking analyst that uses Tobii gear, it can measure things like gaze and what you focus on, and slightly more scarily, your pupil dilation, which means what you’re engaged with and/or are attracted to. All semi/sub-consciously.
So if/when this becomes mainstream, sites like Facebook/Youtube could potentially know that instead of “reading the articles”, you’re actually looking at that girl you’re creepin’ or that “bikini fails of 2012″ video. It could know you’re attracted to blonde women instead of brunetttes, secret man-crush on Bieber, etc.
Already being done (albeit voluntarily): http://goo.gl/7eAEw