eyeBlog

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."

Comments

Ugly

[Vladimir9]

Im pretty sure if your wearing those glasses everyone will be looking at you...pointing and laughing.

Not the greatest example

[Pilferer]

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?

Re:Not the greatest example

[slycer9]

The look of horror on your favourite uncle's face as he's dragged away by the police.

The deposition.

The trial.

The years of therapy you go through to get over your favourite uncle.

The list just goes on and on!

almost what i want

[rootedgimp]

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.

Public speaking?

[ValourX]

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.

-Jem

Staring won't be a problem anymore

[Gary Destruction]

If someone is staring at you, the glasses take a picture for them so it lasts longer.

Second version in development

[tilrman]

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.

Re:Second version in development

[fraccy]

hehehe... funny as that is, I think you're onto a winner. People want to know when they're being watched by someone /not/ in their field of view. Imagine the marketing potential of a device attached to the buttocks, alerting female wearers of an er.. admiring onlooker. This would probably result in some kind of armageddon (and a lot of slapped faces), along with the subsequent development of ButtBlog jamming devices...

Re:why bother

[Lord Prox]

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.

Oh the humanity!

Eye-Contact Sensor (1.3MB .jpg)
PDF
mpeg1
mpeg2

is it just me?

[martin-boundary]

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.

Mirror mirror

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Go back to AIM

[Robawesome]

eyeBlog uses this information to record and publish face-2-face conversations...(emphasis added)

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:

eyeBlog uss ths in4m8ion 2 rec0rd n puhblihs face-2-face convers8ions w/o dvdng teh usrs attntion be2ween teh event bng rec0rded, n teh devIce bng usd 2 rec0rd it.

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.

Re:why bother

[Glonoinha]

They need to release a female version that is triggered whenever someone is staring at their chest.