Eye-Writing Technology: Writing in Cursive With Your Eyes Only

[microrobert]

Eye-Writing Technology: Writing in Cursive With Your Eyes Only

A new technology described in the paper published online on July 26 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, might allow people who have almost completely lost the ability to move their arms or legs to communicate freely, by using their eyes to write in cursive. The eye-writing technology tricks the neuromuscular machinery into doing something that is usually impossible: to voluntarily produce smooth eye movements in arbitrary directions.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-cursive-eyes.html

[Siegfried]

Next, you'll be able to have machines memorize information, read books, cook, clean and just about anything to you. I know many will view this as a technological advancement, but I view it as social degradation.