THESE GLASSES KNOW WHEN YOU’RE LOOKING

A Queen’s University researcher has devel­oped glasses that can tell when someone’s look­ing at you. These sen­sors then trig­ger a video cam­era, mounted on the shades, which will auot­mat­i­cally “videoblog” the con­ver­sa­tion.
A ring of infrared light-​​emitting diodes on the glasses pro­duce a red eye effect in the onlooker’s eyes. The LEDs also pro­duce a glint on the cornea. When the glint lines up with the cen­ter of the pupil, the glasses know that eye con­tact has been made.
The inter­ac­tion is then sent to “eye­Blog,” a pro­gram which “uses this infor­ma­tion to record and pub­lish face-​​2-​​face con­ver­sa­tions with­out divid­ing the user’s atten­tion between the event being recorded, and the device being used to record it,” the researcher, Connor Dickie, explains. “Moreover, beca­sue eye­Blog uses eye-​​contact to start and stop record­ing, users do not need to sift through hours of footage to find inter­est­ing seg­ments.“
LifeLog, any­one?

May 17th, 2004 | You can run... | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.