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Contact Lens Kinda Makes You Cyborgy
This one’s kinda hard to swallow so take a deep breath, open your minds, and pretend it’s 2100. I CONTACT is essentially a mouse fitted to your eyeball. The lens is inserted like any other normal contact lens except it’s laced with sensors to track eye movement, relaying that position to a receiver connected to your computer. Theoretically that should give you full control over a mouse cursor. I’d imagine holding a blink correlates to mouse clicks.
The idea was originally created for people with disabilities but anyone could use it. Those of us too lazy to use a mouse now have a free hand to do whatever it is people do when they sit at the computer for endless hours. I love the idea but there is a caveat. How is the lens powered? Perhaps in the future, electrical power can be harnessed from the human body, just not in a Matrix creepy-like way.
Designers: Eun-Gyeong Gwon & Eun-Jae Lee
At my home I have a tea spoon which hangs on the cup by using the same principle of balance."
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Lamah says
Um, it’s a lot easier to do this by just pointing a camera at the eye. Another advantage is that they already exist now and work.
yep. says
You’re so right, it would probably be a lot easier just to not move your head at all while you’re at your computer.
RY says
i guess if i had no arms, this would be great… but then again how would i put it on?!!… another one of those products that just doesn’t solve a problem.
Nikita says
lmao. this is so true. I thought about it as I was reading the blog. great idea, greater problems.
jef says
and how would you click? and what aboutt the blinking factor?
Mark says
You click by pressing on your
“iNose”.
Sam says
This doesnt have a problem to solve, so it doesnt need to solve it
phi says
fail!
Eric says
Wow someone did absolutely NO research before thinking they invented the next best thing since sliced bread. As the first person stated these already exist and without having to put a contact lense in your eye (which I already wear, so this would not work for me anyway!)
Viktor says
And in addition eye-movements are not so precise as you might think. Try rolling your eyes in a circle and you’ll notice “angles” in movements. So this would work only for point and click stuff, and not precise drawing
uhh says
Why would you try drawing with this.
Oscar says
ummm……just wondering how users click…
By blinking?
And what if their heads move?
xonegon says
when boobs appaer on screen …
when guy goes epileptic…
when electronic devices get mounted on fragile parts of humans…
carl says
think it would drive you mad when reading text.
Eric says
Good point!
jin_woo_han says
야 ㅋ 이건좀그렇자나!
밀라노나 놀러와 아미쓰유
Woo Hoo says
Yeah!! What Jin Woo said!!
Ky Lân says
It could be great buut not with a cursor and… windows. But it could work with augmented reality. Today we have the capabilities for make contact lenses with circuits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=39094
a french company, leader actually :http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kza4_realite-augmentee-total-immersion
Cheers
topper harley says
photoshopped. I can tell by some of the pixels
pissed off by photoshop asses says
bullshit how is it that when anything stupid shows up on the net, there’s always some asshole who says it’s photoshopped wtf is there to photoshop in the pic? and being able to tell by some random pixels just shut the fuck up and admit the idea is funny even if it *was* photoshopped
eeedel says
Calm down… its really not that serious.
me says
why is it that anytime something stupid shows up on the net and some dumbass says “Photoshopped”, whether or not they were being serious, does some ass have to get all defensive like it really matters?
Ur Face says
why is it that anytime something stupid shows up on the net and some dumbass says “Photoshopped”, whether or not they were being serious, does some ass have to get all defensive about it like it really matters, and then some mofo has to complain about it?
overly skeptical tool says
This comment is actually photoshopped. I can tell by some of the pixels, having shooped many comments in my day.
John says
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
No shit, it’s Photoshopped. That’s the point. It’s not a real product. It’s a CONCEPT. Good job.
buga says
this is perfect,but if i cant close my left eye, does that mean i cant left click….
Skymt says
Ah, but there is no such thing as handicapped in the digital age, only handicapable!
Associate the lmb click with your left pinky toe
Matt Steinberg says
While the idea is really fun to think about, imagine trying to read? That cursor would get really annoying, always being in front of the text . . .
Mohan says
Imagine the number of times the person is going to blink.. double clicking!! lol.. will be interesting
Jyamato says
The no arm problem struck me first as well… maybe in 2100 “handicapped” will be defined as “morbidly lethargic” or something
Tim Lewis says
Haha, “morbidly lethargic”
I thought the same thing about the curser always being where I’m trying to look. Even seeing it in my peripheral vision while trying to read drives me crazy sometimes.
Tyler-James says
really you wouldnt need a cursor, because a cursor is for knowing where you are clicking in refernce to mouse position. As for the contact you always know where you are clicking because you are looking at it.
lola says
uh…i already have enough eye strain from infrequent blinking of my eyes while at my computer. imagine how much less a person would have to blink to operate this thing without clicking on everything…if you completely disregard human physiology this is a “great” idea.
ben says
it says it clicks by a prolonged blink not the normal swift blink
stoki says
They would be powered by scalar power transmission technology. It is really just like RFID of today just scaled up a bit. A really small pancake coil would be deposited with conductive material on the rim of the lens where the rest of the circuitry would be located. And the kicker is that the same wave which is utilized for receiving power can be modulated to send data back to the small usb plug-it-in. IT’LL BE AWESOME!
sony says
Although this product has very limited marketability, it could prove itself to be very useful. The target consumers would have to be, amputees without arms or disabled people who have trouble with their arms. – build it, and they will come.
beerme says
your eyes move quite a bit/second taking in visual stimuli. it would be very difficult to focus the line of sight for enough time to click. at one time the eye only sees a limited picture the size of a quarter. but it moves rapidly to get the focus necessary for complete vision. the probable method of using a mouse in the future will either be touch screen interface, or http://www.inewidea.com/2009/01/19/7190.html brainwave sensors. cheers
Mark says
Can we all make a pact to stop calling things “i- something”? It immediately makes your product/service sound lame and derivative. It goes in your eye, calling it “I Contact” is not that clever, sorry. I..um, me don’t like it.
I also think having the cursor everywhere you look would be horrible, maybe the cursor needs to be larger semi-transparent circle? Come to think of it, a cursor is redundant here, unless you want others to see what you are looking at?
Martin says
This is just a well presented, very, very bad idea. Unoriginal and very unlikely. Why would you not just use the system that alread exists??
smith says
why is no.1?
Hm…..I don’t know.
Diamond says
wow this sounds like such a great idea, but its a shame I cant hold my eye open long enough to put a regular contact in, I dont think ill be getting this anytime soon lol
Martin Lewis says
Cool as f**k!
Bucksatan says
Pretentious and idiotic. Go design a car bozos.
Mark says
I think this is just a student project that involves presentation skills, without designing/thinking about the real product.
lezli says
wot if i dont have eyes..http://winnipeg.kijiji.ca/c-jobs-other-Wanted-Bar-attraction-W0QQAdIdZ94888311 check this …
Eric says
I would rather put a hat on that could read my mind then this
Paintballer says
Awww man, In the state I’m in I would never be able to use this, I can’t keep my eyes open long enough and my blinks are prolonged anyway. Although not having to reach for the mouse pad from the comfort of my blanket would be nice…
And again I think the I-[insert name of base item here] is just getting old, Ipod, Iphone, Irobot, Ipeefreely, it’s all a load of bull and so is the “Oh, he photoshopped it I can see by the pixels.” there is absolutely nothing to photoshop here! wtf?!
Deccaz says
What the hell is used to click!!!! poor disabled people, now we are just taunting them :p
Fred says
Make this, with the following changes:
1. click using hand
2. if it could be done with a camera instead of wearing a contact lens, even better
Do this, and EVERY FPS gamer will have to have one. I don’t know about you, but I can track much better with my eyes than using my hand+mouse.
Some guy says
Man, I hate product design. All show and no goddamm go. It’s always “look I invented a mobile phone that’s paper thin” and whatnot. This is just another in a long line of rather pointless attempts to lay claim to something that’s completely obvious and has been talked about for many years. The main value in this is the CG.
Q says
Hm, i agree the application is not practical. but the underlying technology is fantastic. If you are able to put a little electronic device on your contact, what would stop you from putting more on a contact. Imagine how many things we can do on there (including displaying images, video, reading stuff)
Well, of course, we don’t have such technology yet, (not that I know of, please, don’t yell at me.).
Don’t kill every single idea and also, don’t keep pointing out how something will NOT work, do the opposite. Things like this inspire a lot of people to make fantastic innovations.
teknomiks says
I want one
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