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NTT DoCoMo testing out eye-controlled music interface
http://www.engadget.com/ 2008/ 07/ 25/ ntt-docomo-testing-out-eye-controlled-music-i...
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Wearables If you're scouting the strange, the weird and the weirder, you'll find plenty to get absorbed in over at the research facilities of NTT DoCoMo. The Japanese giant is at it once more, but this time the invention is actually somewhat down to Earth. It's mission? To create a method for easily controlling a music interface (on a PMP or cellphone) with just your eyes. By rolling one's eyes and jerking them from side to side, the outfit is hoping to have the corresponding music player change tracks and get louder / softer.
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Eye Activated Device Controller Goes Mobile
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/07/eye_activated_devi...NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese mobile phone operator, is experimenting with a new method of controlling mobile devices without using one's hands. The system currently controls a mobile music player by sensing the electric fields eyes make when they move,
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