Showing posts with label wearable gestural interface. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wearable gestural interface. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

I Contact: Contact lens mouse

I love this: The contact lens mouse:




Via Yanko Design:
This one’s kinda hard to swallow so take a deep breath, open your minds, and pretend it’s 2100. I CONTACT is essentially a mouse fitted to your eyeball. The lens is inserted like any other normal contact lens except it’s laced with sensors to track eye movement, relaying that position to a receiver connected to your computer. Theoretically that should give you full control over a mouse cursor. I’d imagine holding a blink correlates to mouse clicks.

The idea was originally created for people with disabilities but anyone could use it. Those of us too lazy to use a mouse now have a free hand to do whatever it is people do when they sit at the computer for endless hours. I love the idea but there is a caveat. How is the lens powered? Perhaps in the future, electrical power can be harnessed from the human body, just not in a Matrix creepy-like way.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

MIT's "Sixth Sense": The wearable gestural interface


Next gen as I see it would feature:
  • implants in the fingers instead of external sensors
  • non-projected display that is instead visible through an eye-tap device or contact lens
  • interactivity and data exhcange with other wearables