In another stride forward in the eye tracking and wearable technology, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems have developed a display that detects eye movement. Way beyond motion sensing and touch technology that’s a rage recently, there isn’t anything new with eye tracking technology, we have seen it around, but the process and the utility that the recently developed display can muster, we could definitely have a future where mere looking at the right part of the screen would be enough to navigate through a device.
An inviting development for people with disabilities or those who have their hands occupied in other chores (say while driving and stuff), this developed chip from a combination of photodetector cells – similar to the light capturing found in cameras, with OLEDs, will surely benefit in making better wearable and electronic displays in the future.
Researchers have built the display by first designing a light-sensing chip with evenly spaced photodetectors and then placing multiple chips within them to make up the OLEDs to display. The developed prototype chip is about 1.25 centimeters with 320 x 240 resolutions, a built-in 12 pixels camera and would be exhibited at the Society for Information Display conference in San Antonio this week.
Via: TechnologyReview
