I meant something different. I read about that some months ago, so don't blame detail mistakes on me! It was an article about the german young scientists competition "Jugend forscht". Some two guys tried to produce a controlling gadget that used the electrical fields produced by the muscles moving the eye to detect eye movement and in consequence control the mose pointer. I think they weren't successful trying to build such device on their own, but found the parts (most important, the one detecting the fields) in some electronics store. I guess they built their device and won the competition, but I'm not sure about that. Trying to hunt that down.... Johannes! Charles J Knight schrieb: > >Sorry, don't know about that, but I've heard about some controller > >using the > >contraction of eye muscles to control the pointer. > >Maybe someone knows more about that... > > There's another one that Canon made for their EOS system of cameras, > which allows the motion of the eye to control the autofocus -- look at a > spot on the ground glass and it focuses on that object. > > It worked by bouncing an IR beam off the back of the eye, and then > calculating which sensor would receive the reflected beam. There was > a training mode for people without "proper" eyesight, i.e. their eyeball > was physically deformed. > > Really neat, and it worked really well. Prohibitively expensive, though, > when it was released around 1990. > > -- Chuck Knight > > P.S. I think one of their camcorders has it built in, too. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > Get the Internet just the way you want it. > Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! > Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. > > -- > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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