Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System

fergus07 writes "Developed by a 17-year-old electronics and programming whiz from Honduras, the Eyeboard system is a low-tech eyeball-tracking device that allows users with motor disabilities to enter text into a computer using eye gestures instead of a physical interface. This kind of system is not unique — there's plenty of eye tracking interfaces out there — but Luis Cruz has figured out a way to build the full system into a set of glasses for less than US$300, putting easier communication within reach of users in developing countries. He's also releasing the software as open source to speed up development."

Comments

I would have had the first post...

[godrik]

... if I did not had to use an eye-tracking device!

Wont someone think of

[AHuxley]

The US shareholders, their trust kids and this very real threat to generational wealth and long term patents.
They invested wisely in medical tech and have the US market cornered with helpful devices starting at a few thousand $.
If developing countries want the tech, let them contact USAID and get it the correct way.
Overtime this tech will be made into low cost products and shipped back into the US - like pharmacy products are now from Canada and Mexico.

Re:Wont someone think of

[PopeRatzo]

You want to help your country, buy the products that you make domestically

But then how will we buy all the cheap shit from Wal-Mart that ends up in landfill?

Nobody thinks of the Walton family, I guess and the effect this could have on them.

And if Wal-Mart closes, then all those people who closed their small stores will have to go back to work in their own shops, instead of the nice jobs they have now as Wal-Mart greeters.

Re:Wont someone think of

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought thats what Capitalism was all about.

Capitalism is the law in the U.S.
If you aren't a capitalist to the point that it gets retarded you are either a communist or terrorist depending on how old you are. Either way it would be anti-American to buy locally produced goods.

My teenager is cool, too.

[erick99]

My teenager took the trash out this week without being asked,

Re:wat

[bugs2squash]

cheaper yet, stick a toothpick in each eye and simply use the keyboard.