Wink for back, wink for forward, blink to stop - the new iPod controls

A new Japanese remote control has been developed that registers eye movement as a control for an iPod. Using sensors on a glasses-based headset, the KomeKami / Temple Switch can use clear winks and blinks to control the iPod.

One wink with one eye will go backwards, a wink with the other is forwards, and a strong blink is pause/play; apparently the system is even bright enough to disregard accidental winks and blinks plus you can talk, walk, run or eat without disrupting it. Sure, you'd have to be pretty lazy to want this as an ordinary consumer (unless you really were going to train your cat to use it, which would be cool); however, the implications for making consumer technology more accessible to paraplegics and other people of limited mobility are huge.

[via Ubergizmo]

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