Wouldn't it be great if you could take a photo with your eyes, just by blinking?
In the future, we might be able to do just that! Design engineer Mimi Zou is working on a prototype of a new type of camera that is controlled by the eye. Dubbed "Iris," the camera uses eye-tracking tech and biometric detection to make it utterly simple for taking photos.
Eye-tracking controls the mechanics of the camera -- you squint slightly to zoom, open your eyes to zoom out and you blink twice to take a picture.Though Zou has a working prototype, a final product is a ways off. Still, even if we never see Iris in the wild, chances are, eye-tracking tech will find its way to future cameras.
The real innovation of the camera is that it will not only react to eye movements, but instead develop a relationship with its user over time. When a user picks up the camera, it scans his/her iris and can immediately determine his identity as long as he/she is registered his/her biometric data in the camera’s software. Once it recognizes the user, the camera automatically pulls down a series of previously created preferences.
Another proposed feature, like the recently featured Google Glass, is biometric recognition to identify the subjects in the pictures. To participate these subjects would need to provide their consent and biometric information, which would be stored on a proprietary Iris server.
Using the camera’s built in wifi capabilities, would both help the camera identify its subjects and tell it whether they wanted their photos sent to a particular location like a cloud or Facebook.
The final product seems to be a long way off, if it happens at all, but Zou is optimistic that Iris could eventually make it to market.
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