EyePhone: New Cellphone that tracks your eye.

clipped from century-hitech.com EyePhone The EyeMenu on a Nokia smartphone. While a user looks at the display, a button is highlighted if it matches the eye position on the display. The highlighted button is ready to be “clicked” with a blink of the eye. Dartmouth College researchers are giving a whole new meaning to the word iPhone. Ahem Make that Eye-Phone. Eye-tracking could soon be coming to cell phones, allowing hands-free control of mobile devices that goes way beyond voice activation, Technology Review reports. Blinking equates to a mouse click, allowing users to choose an application. It’s a pretty basic system, but the researchers hope to develop more advanced methods NeuroPhone — an iPhone that taps into your brain. That system uses an off-the-shelf wireless EEG headset to control an iPhone. A mind-controlled contact app flashes photos of contacts, and when the user sees the person she wants to call, her brain activity triggers the system and tells the iPhone to dial that person.

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