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cottonbuds writes "Researchers at Human Media Lab, Queen's University in Canada presented the ECSGlasses: eye contact sensing glasses that report when people look at their wearer. When eye contact is detected, the glasses stream this information to appliances to inform these about the wearer's engagement. According to HML.Blog the ECSGlasses uses a wearable, wireless Eye-Contact Sensor (1.3MB .jpg) to gauge when the user receives eye-contact from an onlooker. eyeBlog uses this information to record and publish face-2-face conversations without dividing the user's attention between the event being recorded, and the device being used to record it. Moreover, because eyeBlog uses eye-contact to start and stop recording, users do not need to sift through hours of footage to find interesting segments. If you are the academic type you can read the paper (2.2MB .pdf), otherwise the video in .mpg (1:49min, 320x240, 7.5MB), or mp4 (1:49min, 320x240, 4.9MB) should explain everything. Video Mirror: .mp4 .mpg."
no? oh ok then.
Im pretty sure if your wearing those glasses everyone will be looking at you...pointing and laughing.
from the article on HP's site:
Your daughter's first smile. Your son's joy the first time he catches a ball. The wink your favorite uncle always gave you, but that he'd never do on camera.
Uhhhh, WHAT?
i was all thinking "yay neat inconspicuous social paranoia spy stuff" before i clicked the 1.3mb photo button.
i was wrong in that assumption, btw.
And just what the hell will happen if you're giving a speech or performance for 10k people? All looking at you at once as your contacts get Slashdotted and fry to a crisp...
No thanks -- I'll keep my old fashioned contacts.
-JemIf someone is staring at you, the glasses take a picture for them so it lasts longer.
Researchers found that the eyeBlog was only 28% effective when used by female wearers, but couldn't reproduce the effect in the lab. After some field trials, however, they discovered and corrected the problem. The new eyeBlog-II for women is 96% accurate and will be completed sometime next month. Rather than attaching the sensors to eyeglasses, the eyeBlog-II will be embedded into a bra.
What I would like to see is the MPEG of the look of pure horror in his eyes when he sees what we are doing to his web server. linking right to >1MB files.
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Oh the humanity!
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This reminds me of that device (I forget who developed it) which looked like a cycle helmet and had the ability to recognise objects. As with so much technology, I get concerned as to what we're actually trying to achieve here... I'm having a forgetful day, but who was it said man is just trying to make a machine in his own image? Seems increasingly valid...Show me a machine that shocks the wearer every time they perform a ridiculously stupid act, now that would be a step forward.
what we need is an eyeball implant that will do this same task (w/o wearing those glasses...) and then dowload the info from your brain, or possibly some wireless device in your head, hooked up to your router. i need to download some vids off my brain.
~~par
Or did anyone else feel creeped out by those shiny eyes? I had no idea there were so many Goa'uld walking around? Brr, I may have to wear my trusty Joo Janta 200 super-Chromatic contact lenses undertneath.
Mmm. Does the system provide flood protection in a magic house of mirrors ? Hate to see ones brain explode due to a infinite recursion failure in his or hers glasses.
Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
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My first thought on seeing that image was
"I am Lokutas of Borg: Resistance is futile!"
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
...when you wear that thing, everbody looks at you!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I heard they made another version of the software that would distinguish the sex of the person and alert the wearer when a female looked at them, useful in "social" situations. However, fields tests were unsuccessful as not a single female looked at the test subject during a 4 hour party.
Read reviews of shopping cart software
When eye contact is detected, the glasses stream this information to appliances to inform these about the wearer's engagement.
I read this as "the contact's engagement."
Scanning...
Married
Bodybuilder boyfriend
Engaged
Single - WE HAVE A WINNER!
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Get it through your heads, people: Numerals are not syllables and connot be substituted for them. "2" is NOT the same thing as "to". "1" cannot be substituted for the "one" in "someone". "4" is NOT the same thing as "for".
If you are going to use these kinds of sloppy, illegible, ugly, non-standard substitutions, just go whole hog. No point in half measures. Example:
Is that what you want? To sound like an illiterate 14 year old girl on AIM? Then understand it now: Numerals and syllables are not interchangable. When you act like they are, you cheapen the quality of life of everyone who accidentally reads your fetid heap of alphanumeric garbage.
I did NOT learn everything I need to know in kindergarten.
My first thought when reading this story was similar, but reversed. Rather than being notified whenever someone looks at my eyes, I think it might be useful to be informed when someone looks at my ass.
The typical socially awkward geek doesn't MAKE eye contact, so how would this work then?
The other half of this project is eyeglasses that make eye contact with other people in the room. So we can go through life staring at the floor in social situations...
Fiat Lux.
They need to release a female version that is triggered whenever someone is staring at their chest.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer