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Making use of technology engineered by Tobii, Lenovo (the world's fourth greatest maker of personal computers) has built the world's first eye-controlled laptop, applying eye tracking technology from Tobii. This first fully functional type specimen is a crucial innovation for Tobii in its undertaking to bring eye tracking technology to development level to be used in consumer products.
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Most computer companies today strive to strengthen their products by adding more and more natural control panels. Using our eyes to point, choose and scroll is altogether intuitive and increases traditional control interfaces, such as the mouse and keyboard, in a very natural way.
"More than anything else, the Tobii laptop prototype is proof that our eye tracking technology is mature enough to be used in standard computer interfaces. To reach a state where the technology is part of the average computer, we need to make it smaller and cheaper. We believe that this can be realized in a couple of years by partnering with the right manufacturer," comments Henrik Eskilsson, CEO of Tobii Technology.
The initial group of eye-controlled laptops consists of 20 devices split uniformly between Tobii Technology and Lenovo for development and demo purposes.
"On the one hand, we have Lenovo, a great partner, representing industry-leading expertise in computer manufacturing and hardware development. Tobii, on the other hand, has the world's leading eye tracking technology and unique expertise in eye tracking and eye control interfaces. We are very happy with the outcome of this collaboration," Henrik Eskilsson concluded.
For users, eye control is fascinating and makes the computer interaction and communication more effective. It is as if the computer understands you; just peek at an icon or gadget and more info will be displayed; You can zoom into pictures or maps and immediately center on the area you are looking at; The computer can auto-dim and light up the screen when it has recognized your eyes to enhance battery time. Eye control can also speed things up by enabling new and predictive ways to switch between open windows, and browse your emails and documents.
"We anticipate that people will be extremely excited to be able to control their computer with their eyes," said Barbara Barclay, general manager of Tobii North America. "But what we find most exciting are the opportunities that eye control as part of natural user interfaces offer consumer electronics manufacturers in a range of product categories. We look forward to working with our partners to find many exciting ways to share and integrate this technology to advance their work."
Tobii Technology is the world's leading merchant of eye tracking and eye control, a technology that makes it possible for computers to know exactly where users are looking. Their eye tracking technology has modified exploration in many sections and allowed correspondence for thousands of people with particular needs. Looking forward Tobii's mission is to bring eye tracking into broader use. Some of that future is by now here. They render market-leading eye tracking technology to industrial associates in areas such as hospitals, diagnostics, vehicle safety, gaming and computer production.
Tobii continues to apprehend its visions, showing continuous and rapid year-to-year revenue growth, and receiving a multitude of awards and recognition for its activities. From their head office in Stockholm, Sweden, their scope is as wide-ranging as their vision. With offices in the US, Germany, Norway, Japan and China and a worldwide network of resellers and associates, they are certainly a global company. Read more and see the video at New-Technology-World.com
