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Modded Nintendo Lets You Play Mario With Your Eyes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ever-more-lazy dept.

hasanabbas1987 writes "A group of engineers going by Waterloo Labs in Austin, Texas created a way of controlling an original NES by simply moving your eyes. By using electrodes placed around the eyes to track the movement of a players eyeballs, they were able to jury rig a Nintendo to accept eye movement as controller input." Quite the production on the video (attached below) too.

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  1. Video games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now with even less exercise. That's right! No more tiresome finger muscle use.

    1. Re:Video games by ByOhTek · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Consider paraplegics that might want to play video games, this would be great for them.

      Even without that, it's an interesting demo of what our tech can do, although I think this might have been available for a while?

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    2. Re:Video games by maxume · · Score: 4, Informative

      Its a minor quibble, but paraplegic specifically refers to someone who has lost the use of their lower body, they generally can use their hands.

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  2. Re:Leisure Suit Larry? by Pojut · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talk about undressing her with your eyes!

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  3. Nevar Forget by yerktoader · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't care if they get Fred Savage and Jenny Lewis to make a sequel to The Wizard, I'm not saving up my allowance for six months to buy a goddamned Power Glove for my eyes.

  4. They should pick up the pace... by underqualified · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stephen Hawking deserves to play StarCraft 2.

  5. Re:Games for disabled people by RivenAleem · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get the feeling I'm playing with disabled people all the time when I log into WoW