Our friends over at DemoDone.com have sent us a video blog of their time at last week’s MWC 2010 from Barcelona.
We were all wowed by the big releases of the main mobile brands such as HTC, Nokia and Sony Ericsson but wandering around at MWC there are more than a few stands that turned our heads and grabbed our attention. Cue the DoCoMo Eye-controlled earphones…. yes that is correct, EYE CONTROLLED EARPHONES!
The DoCoMo Eye-controlled headphones which use special electrodes, attached to a set of earphones, are able to pick up the movement of the eye. The Earphone electrodes pick up on “electrical potential” that the eyes create (the cornea is the positive and retina is the negative) when there is movement of the eyeball the eyes produce an electrical current.
So once the earphones are in place they are able to read the electrical currents generated by the eyes, and transmitting the information to a pre-programmed device (Media Players, Mobile Phones etc) will be able to take this information and use it to control the device.
For example by looking right the device would skip a music track, Left would return to the previous track and rotating your eyes will increase the volume, the system is so effective it will also work with the eyes closed.
The system is still firmly a prototype and even the NTT DoCoMo stated that the system was years away from being implemented into technology.
As weird as it may look sitting on a train continually rolling your eyes… you must admit that you want to try it?
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