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Enthalpy

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An idea that may break through!

 

I suggested there (but there were already developments, at least for disabled persons, if not for every computer user)

http://saposjoint.ne...php?f=66&t=1477

to track with a camera the eye position of a computer user and let software deduce where the user looks at.

Then, special keys - I'd like them at the keyboard - would tell what action to start with the object looked at.

This is meant as a pointing device to replace mices, touchpads and other trackballs.

 

Meanwhile (or had they started before?), the Swedish company Tobii develops such a pointing device

http://www.futura-sc...les-yeux_28435/

resembling my description.

 

And now Tobii's development could be integrated to Windows 8, as has just been made public at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas:

http://www.tobii.com...-for-windows-8/ (developer company)

(or search the Web for Tobii Windows in your preferred language)

at Youtube : 3MoGzTdQnX8 (demo video by Tobii)

 

I'd like to have such a possibility on the computer I use, if it's quick and accurate.

But above all, I need some credible proof that the camera can only send data to that piece of the computer.

 

Best wishes!

Marc Schaefer, aka Enthalpy

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Nasa tried it.

They were trying to find a way for space travellers to control the ship even though they couldn't move because of the G forces during take-off.

It didn't work for their purposes.

 

Do not look at the next line in this box- it's the emergency de-pressurize button. Looking at it will kill you and the crew. Just keep looking at this box for a while without looking at the next line

 

 

Opps!- that's what kept happening.

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Nasa tried it.

They were trying to find a way for space travellers to control the ship even though they couldn't move because of the G forces during take-off.

It didn't work for their purposes.

 

Do not look at the next line in this box- it's the emergency de-pressurize button. Looking at it will kill you and the crew. Just keep looking at this box for a while without looking at the next line

 

 

Opps!- that's what kept happening.

 

In simulations I hope

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