Japanese mobile giant NTT Docomo has developed a new pair of earphones that can be controlled by moving your eyes. The earphones use electrodes to determine the charge between you cornea and retina, and they can detect when you move your eyes in a particular direction.
Eye movement is detected by electrodes and allows the users to send commands to their device. In their demonstration a user issued commands to their MP3 player like play, pause, and skip.
Apparently our eyeballs have minute electrical potential that can be measured by sticking electrodes in our ears. Specific eye gestures can be recorded to perform virtually any command on a smartphone (cross your eyes to send a text message).
Highlights of the eye-controlled earphones include:
- Wear only earphones: Eye movement detected by electrodes on the earphones (EOG).
- Control by moving eyes: Music players and cellular phones can be controlled by eye gestures.
- Simple, silent, and hands free: “Hands-free” and “voice free”. It even works with your eyes closed.
Check out the video of the Eye Controlled Earphones in action below:
Sounds like a cool idea, although you definitely would look a little strange moving your eyes about all the time when you wanted to change tracks or turn up the volume on your MP3 player.
Credits: Android and Me, Geeky Gadgets, YouTube
