New Laptop from Lenovo Is Controlled by Eye Movements.

Lenovo and Tobii Technology are tag-teaming on the world's first laptop with integrated eye control. Lenovo built the eye-controlled laptop using Tobii's eye-tracking technology. The prototype is on display at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, this week.
While most computer manufacturers are working to deliver products with more natural interfaces, the Lenovo-Tobii effort is the first that lets users depend on their eyes to point, select and scroll down a page. The eye-control technology doesn't aim to replace the mouse and keyboard, but to enhance it. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
"More than anything else, the Tobii laptop prototype is proof that our eye-tracking technology is mature enough to be used in standard computer interfaces," said Henrik Eskilsson, CEO of Tobii. "To reach a state where the technology is part of the average computer, we need to make it smaller and cheaper."
Glance To Click
Here's how it works: Users can glance at an icon or gadget. The computer will then display additional information. Users can zoom in on pictures or maps and automatically center on what they are looking at.
The prototype computer can also brighten the screen when it recognizes a user's eyes to save battery life, and auto-dim it when no one is looking at the screen. Tobii says the eye-control technology can speed up usage by empowering new ways to switch between open windows, reading e-mails, and reviewing documents.
"We anticipate that people will be extremely excited to be able to control their computer with their eyes," said Barbara Barclay, general manager of Tobii North America. "But what we find most exciting are the opportunities that eye control as part of natural user interfaces offers consumer electronics manufacturers in a range of product categories."
Useful Enough?
Roger Kay, principal analyst at Endpoint Technologies Associates, sees an immediate application for paraplegics. However, he added, there might be some convenience factor if you had your hands otherwise occupied.
"Lenovo needs to distinguish itself technologically to show that it's got something special and different. In the old days, the IBM technology was well engineered and robust, and that gave them a certain cache. But it wasn't enough early on to prevent Compaq or Dell from taking market share from them," Kay said. "This input method is a pretty distinct differentiator. This is something Lenovo could market because it's visible."
If Lenovo bought Tobii, the PC maker could prevent others from licensing the eye-control technology. But Kay isn't sure how useful the laptops toting the high-tech capabilities are at this point. Tobii didn't offer any specific usage cases.
Right now, there are 20 units in production. Tobii and Lenovo each have 10 for development and demonstration purposes. Eskilsson believes the eye-controlled PC can find its way to the mainstream market within two years by partnering with the right manufacturer. It appears that Tobii is betting on Lenovo. Eskilsson says the company is happy with the collaborative outcome.

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