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Lenovo's Laptops Are First to Have Eye-Control Ability

Posted March 02, 2011 10:48 AM

From Fast Company:

Lenovo and Tobii today unveiled what they're calling the "world's first eye-controlled laptop," and they're giving it a public demo at the CeBIT show in Germany. The idea is to add what the makers call a "truly natural interface" into everyday computing situations, allowing users of the laptop to control what happens in the UI using keyboard, mouse and where they glance on the screen--not entirely unlike the hand-eye-coordinated actions we do in non-computing environments. This taps into the current trend of natural user interfaces, and could change how you think about PCs.

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03/03/2011 10:04 AM

I've got one... cut a long story short.. I asked "tech help" how it works.. no idea, they are just learning it too!!

Well done IBM....

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