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Gaze Detector Lets You Hear With Your Eyes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doc-brown-rides-again dept.

tinkertim writes "Engadget is reporting that Manabe Hiroyuki has developed a personal 'being' assistant, the wearable headphone gaze detector. The device apparently takes notice of what you look at (and hear) and makes note of the more important events in your life that it records. From the article '[the device] is slightly less elegant than the traditional neural implant, with this system you could not only record the goings on of your days and "bookmark" important events, but also train the cameras to feed you information about your surroundings based on QR codes or possibly eventually object recognition; think of it as augmented aural reality triggered by giving a passing glance.'"

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  1. "Important events" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do I get the feeling that the main events this will record are hot girls passing by?

    1. Re:"Important events" by FirienFirien · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is a bad thing?

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  2. possibly eventually object recognition... by blindd0t · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it have a speaker that yells, "shwing!" every time you see an awesome pair of breasts?

  3. How does this work? by pdr77 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does this actually follow your gaze without looking at your eyes? Surely the headphones can't be sensitive enough to pick up the neural or nervous signalling?

    Still, it seems quite rudimentary compared with other AR projects like Tinmith: http://www.tinmith.net/

  4. Could the article be any more vague? by reset_button · · Score: 5, Informative

    All I see is some dumb looking guy with dumb looking headphones, and no real explanation of what either of them does.

  5. detector running by uncanny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gaze detector activated: recording: boobs boobs boobs boobs eyes floor