A colleague of mine passed this along and I thought DT readers might be interested as well.
From the New Scientist Invention blog:
Tracking eye movements can let a computer know when someone is paying attention and identify exactly what they are interested in, but it’s also a tricky business. Most systems work by using a camera and image recognition software to identify a person’s pupils and work out the direction of their gaze.
In real-life situations, however, tracking systems can be easily confused by rapid head movement or spectacles.
Now, the Office of Naval Research is looking for better ways of tracking eyes in the hope of developing military applications, such as tracking a fighter pilot’s gaze.
So it has a funded James DiCarlo, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US, to develop a magnetic contact lens.
A soldier would wear the lenses and a magnetic sensor attached to the side of his or her head. The sensor picks up any changes in the local magnetic field and works out how the wearer’s eyes are moving.
The system should work regardless of head orientation and movement, lighting condition,s or “face furniture” such as goggles or glasses. The team says the magnetic lenses could also let disabled people control equipment such as wheelchairs.
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– Christian
Interesting.
my experience with magnetic motion capure says that the biggest issue is magnetic interference from metallic and conducting objects.
so unless they are also developing organic machines of war. they might be in for some trouble.
Guess they must have a workaround of sorts..
Any one who has worn contacts will tell you it’s a major bugger when they slip out of place or when the tiniest speck of dust gets between the the lens & your cornea. Uh-uh. No. Nyet. Find another way.
As an alternative to magnetics, it would seem a simple positioning sensor that detects displacement much like a touch screen coordinate system based on a minute dot on the lens itself would work and also unless you are dealing with just a visor heads up display, head orientation would be critical for such things a gun following tracking as some choppers have.
Ideally a head/vision cued gun pointing system should also have a commitment lock in window. That prevents the gun being drawn off the intended target if the pilot responds to a new external event. So once the trigger is engaged it locks there until the trigger is released.
Also helpful would be spatial orientation correction where if the chopper has to take evasive action the gun will track to the original target while the trigger is down even if the chopper is having to move off the original target orientation.
Since this is already pilot oriented..
Why spend time and energy and money on these kinds of operations. Flight simulator software has become more and more advanced, it is time for the remote pilot.
Mars rover techniques for time delays, the plane could fly and point all potential targets to a remote pilot. Basic point, click and boom.
I could never have a conversation with another woman if this technology really works.
I think if any al queda/hezbollah or HamAss wants to go ANYWHERE on this planet they MUST be scanned, while their heads are in a vice.
If a bad guy fights, then a big SQUEEZE of that vice until till their brains ooz out of thier ears!!!
Islamic extremists your sorry asses are SOON history
Call me a doubting Thomas, but I don’t know that I’d let the Big Green Machine or Microsoft, LockMart, Raytheon, etc., etc. implant any sh*t in my eye.
Gimme one of those Borg monocles, any day.
give this to woman
Its bad bad enough now! then this———
yes dear— dearest!– only looked at her purse—— LIAR!! Then– Your Honor he oogled 250 miniskirts in 3 minutes–! Recorded !! Judge –lets see a replay of this—-
This is old news.
I wanna gear more about the “gay bomb”
Yep, I concur about chicks misusing this device, ha ha. More “Thought Police” tools, I can see some misuse, in theory. How about those that do a lot of data entry on their computers at work?
Another device to track them, on top of what spying corporations already do to their employees?
Not too much fear hear, I am a little surprised of the tone of the majority of respondents here.
I would be more interested in any developments in devices that would defeat IED’s. Focused hand held EMP cannons with appropriate Rf filtering, etc?
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I wonder how they intend to compensate for the contact shifting in the eye!
I am am happy about the new innovation. I hope and pray it will be beneficial,industrious and earth friendly with the human sensory organs for the porpose it will be manufactured.And for military and security purpose only.
Position control for equipment is a good idea.
G forces, gentlemen! The pilot would loose the contact lens in his brain!
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