Eye sight lenses

Professor of Massachusetts University of Technology, James DiCarlo, has applied for a patent for magnetic contact lenses. Such a thing is useful for tracking the gaze of a person and can be in many cases a very useful invention. Therefore, there is nothing strange in the fact that the military from the Center for Naval Research of the USA was primarily interested in the work of DiCarlo.


At the moment, there are systems in the world that allow you to track the direction of a person’s gaze. They are a camera and image recognition software. But such systems in a real situation turn out to be completely useless, since you can knock them down with just quick head movements. The system proposed and patented by DiCarlo consists of magnetic contact lenses and a special sensor that is mounted on the head. The sensor perceives the slightest changes in the magnetic field of contact lenses and, thus, determines the direction of gaze. The eye tracking system should work regardless of lighting, head position, face shape, or the presence of glasses.

The scope of perspective development is quite extensive. In the first place, of course, these are military needs. Lenses that track eyes will be useful, for example, to aircraft pilots: aiming a missile at a target with one look only is very promising. But in the "peaceful purposes" magnetic lenses can serve well. With their help, say, people with disabilities can manage wheelchairs.

via New Scientist