Samsung Shows 'Eye Mouse' For People With Disabilities

Samsung today announced a project among a group of its engineers to build an input device that allows people with limited mobility to operate a computer through eye movement alone. The EYECAN+ is a rectangular box that needs to be situated roughly 60-70cm away from a user's face. Once calibrated, it will superimpose a multifunction UI and track a user's eye movements to move the cursor where they want. Samsung says they won't be commercializing this device, but they'll soon be making the design open source for any company or organization who wants to start building them.

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[mriswith]

Well that's one pretty decent way to get some good karma with the open source comunity and help people at the same time :)

Good for them.

[sconeu]

This is commercially available now, Dynavox and Tobii have offered it for a while.

The BIG news here is the open sourcing. Well done, Samsung.