Thanks to modern technology, it's getting easier and easier to become a real life full-fledged spy. With the Zippo lighter-spy camera shown here a few posts ago and now this, secrets will be harder and harder to hide.

Not a really practical device. Think about how often your eyes move or if there something distracting that happens in your field of view. Too many ways a false positive in motion tracking will cause erronious input. Cute and interesting in seeing what can be done with the technology, but the application as designed is flawed.

In addition, I would like to have a micro pen-like telescope camera that attaches itself onto your glasses - zooming into that far away object. Your neck/head is a great stable platform, and with this telescopic pen device, your vision will be greatly enhanced. As for the power and controls, maybe like a cable onto pocket size, or necklace device.

I completely disagree with Ghost. I have used similar technology and the image appears to float maybe 6 feet in front of you, and it is quite convenient.

Imagine one of these hooked up to google maps when you are lost; or reading email; doing something highly technical that you need to look things up in manuals. Add wireless internet; I could watch a football game while going to the opera with my wife:

A practically identical concept is explored in William Gibson's 1994 novel "Virual Light". I think this one has tremendous potential for the Deaf in that it could be used with software "trained" for the recognition of certain man-made sounds - like the doorbell or the phone ringing - which could make life easier in unfamiliar and unadapted surroundings (e.g. when the vibration function in your telephone is temporarily busted). More importantly, although this is a litte harder to achieve, it could issue warnings or just info about surrounding sound (car coming in, etc), and display speech interpretation while talking to people with no sign language (this would obviously miss out a lot and be grossly inacurrate but it would certainly beat lip-reading). And of course, it could work wonders if integrated with MIT's 6th Sense Device.

Ausgezeichnet! I know we'll all promise not to use them driving on the autobahn.

They're missing the boat by not pushing it's potential as an assistive device. My cousin - who has C.P. - could greatly benefit if they developed a UI focusing on communication. I'm also curious as to how not "too expensive" it really is.

I agree with DavidL, plus it's easy to negate false input. Just include a trigger that needs to be activated before input can be tracked: this could be a small button somewhere on your person or even a specific eye movement. Like in sci-fi shows when they talk to the ships computer, they often have to say Computer or some other name before it will listen to the input.

Almost sounds too good to be true, but can it be customize to work with people who have problems with their eyesight, to start with. And, sort of like monster said, there's gotta be some sort of input trigger. Nobody wants it to pop up in the middle of a meeting or when driving. Also, can this device be fitted to work on any pair of glass, from far-, and near-sighted people, to people with no eye problems whatsoever? I mean I want these, but I have no problems with my eyesight...

I totally agree... this really sounds like science fiction... to good to be true. Reminds me of the display that the terminator uses, shown in the terminator movies.

I think the eye motion as control input will prove to be problematic. I think it would be much easier to have some sort of ring or bracelet and use hand motions, plus it will look far more geekier that way. Isn't that the goal?

Awesome, the positives far outway the negatives - chanllenges to cvercome minor stuff. These have unlimited potential, paraplygics, yes the hearing impaired, distant learning education, IT work(no need to carry a laptop) just a USB with all apps on, GPS use so you don't take your eys off the road, or watching a movie during a boring meeting .... truly endless

Can't wait to see this integrated into a bluetooth device I could use to operate my cellphone or laptop. Immagine using this with something like an iPhone.

I can also see these develop as a serious accessibility aid -- think of a micro OLED chip as a contact lens, or implanted in the forward eye or even a few microns from the retina. That would help people with severe eyesight disabilities to regain their sight (think of extreme myopia, cattaract etc.), essentially enabling the blind to see.

Furthermore, I can also see these pop up at ThinGeek in about 6 months or so, with a USB jack as being a "simply cool" gadget.

Isn't Sci -Fi wonderful???

Showing my age, I remember when the mouse was first introduced, and some people thought it would never catch on because it was so hard to use...
This idea, with the right pricing, could destroy contact lenses. Two rapid blinks in one eye = "Computer", just like a double click.

Oh great.. so now when i ride through Beverly Hills i need to watch out for persons that are not only eating, putting on makeup, talking on the phone as well as driving ...now soemthing else to watch out for!

hey, SteelFox , wouldnt that make it an "Eye Phone"
((Grinn)) Ill bee looking for the asdds from apple soon :-)

Dennou Megane here we come.