Mouse and Keyboard may soon become things of the past.
Yes there will now be Eye-controlled Laptops that will allow your eyes to act as the lasers and your Laptop will track your gazes.
Billed as a global first, a laptop allowing users to open files, play music and view pictures using just the power of their eyes was turning heads at the CeBIT, the world's top tech fair.
The otherwise regular laptop integrates cutting-edge "eye tracking" technology by Swedish firm Tobii that follows the movement of the user's eyes and allows him or her to operate menus and select icons.
Intricacies of this eye tracking technology:
The new method has no theoretical limit in the size of feature that can be seen.
The new nano-imaging system is based on capturing optical, near-field virtual images, which are free from optical diffraction, and amplifying them using a microsphere, a tiny spherical particle which is further relayed and amplified by a standard optical microscope.
"This is a world record in terms of how small an optical microscope can go by direct imaging under a light source covering the whole range of optical spectrum," said Li.
"Not only have we been able to see items of 50 nanometres, we believe that is just the start and we will be able to see far smaller items."
The common way of seeing tiny items presently is with an electron microscope, and even then you cannot see inside a cell - only the outside. Optical fluoresce microscopes can see inside the cells indirectly by dying them, but these dyes cannot penetrate viruses.
Seeing inside a cell directly without dying and seeing living viruses directly could revolutionize the way cells are studied and allow us to examine closely viruses and biomedicine for the first time.
The entire package is about twice as thick as a regular laptop. But future, commercial versions can be slimmer and are perhaps two years away.
Tobii's current, stand-alone eye-trackers cost tens of thousands of dollars, but Barclay said the cost of adding consumer-level eye-tracking to a commercial laptop could be much less.
New ways to use computers have been proliferating in recent years. Touch screens are becoming popular on smart phones and tablet computers such as the iPad. Nintendo Corp.'s Wii game console brought motion-sensing technology to the masses. Microsoft Corp. released an accessory for its Xbox games console last year that uses an infrared camera to sense the movement of bodies in three dimensions.
Yes there will now be Eye-controlled Laptops that will allow your eyes to act as the lasers and your Laptop will track your gazes.
Billed as a global first, a laptop allowing users to open files, play music and view pictures using just the power of their eyes was turning heads at the CeBIT, the world's top tech fair.
The otherwise regular laptop integrates cutting-edge "eye tracking" technology by Swedish firm Tobii that follows the movement of the user's eyes and allows him or her to operate menus and select icons.
Intricacies of this eye tracking technology:
The new method has no theoretical limit in the size of feature that can be seen.
The new nano-imaging system is based on capturing optical, near-field virtual images, which are free from optical diffraction, and amplifying them using a microsphere, a tiny spherical particle which is further relayed and amplified by a standard optical microscope.
"This is a world record in terms of how small an optical microscope can go by direct imaging under a light source covering the whole range of optical spectrum," said Li.
"Not only have we been able to see items of 50 nanometres, we believe that is just the start and we will be able to see far smaller items."
The common way of seeing tiny items presently is with an electron microscope, and even then you cannot see inside a cell - only the outside. Optical fluoresce microscopes can see inside the cells indirectly by dying them, but these dyes cannot penetrate viruses.
Seeing inside a cell directly without dying and seeing living viruses directly could revolutionize the way cells are studied and allow us to examine closely viruses and biomedicine for the first time.
The entire package is about twice as thick as a regular laptop. But future, commercial versions can be slimmer and are perhaps two years away.
Tobii's current, stand-alone eye-trackers cost tens of thousands of dollars, but Barclay said the cost of adding consumer-level eye-tracking to a commercial laptop could be much less.
New ways to use computers have been proliferating in recent years. Touch screens are becoming popular on smart phones and tablet computers such as the iPad. Nintendo Corp.'s Wii game console brought motion-sensing technology to the masses. Microsoft Corp. released an accessory for its Xbox games console last year that uses an infrared camera to sense the movement of bodies in three dimensions.
