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.