Well, we are still big fans of being able to control things with the mind, but with the hat-sized-MRI-machine still months to years away, this may be the next best thing. Creator Manabe Hiroyuki has developed a machine that could eventually allow you to control things in your environment simply by looking at it.
A headphone-type gaze detector for a full-time wearable interface is proposed. It uses a Kalman filter to analyze multiple channels of EOG signals measured at the locations of headphone cushions to estimate gaze direction. Evaluations show that the average estimation error is 4.4® (horizontal) and 8.3® (vertical), and that the drift is suppressed to the same level as in ordinary EOG. The method is especially robust against signal anomalies. Selecting a real object from among many surrounding ones is one possible application of this headphone gaze detector.
Soon we’ll be able to turn on the Barry Manilow and turn down the lights with a simple sexy stare.
(hat tip: Engadget)
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