A company in Sweden, Tobii, is perfecting technology to move the cursor on your computer screen with your eyes. According to an article on Yahoo news, the technology developed for handicapped persons, should be in the market place in about two years.
The technology allows you to move the cursor from one spot to another such as opening emails or follows as you read down a page. As you would expect, I have some problems with this.
First, I want to know how do you right or left click? I guess you just wink which ever eye that applies. Will it work through tri-focal glasses? This is important information to grumpy old men. Since I can’t see without moving my eyes all around, is this technology going to know what it was I really wanted to see? Probably not.
And, as with any new technology, they have not thought of all the problems that will result. What’s going to happen when a red bloodied American male is sitting at his computer, working hard, when a good looking American female walks by? There goes the cursor off the screen!
My advice is to keep your old mouse. I can move it around with my eyes almost closed - which is the case most of the time.
PMO
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