NTT Docomo Unveils Eye Controlled EarPhones, Demonstrates Live AT MWC 2010

Imagine controlling your iPod or mp3 player with your eyes – handsfree movement, no gestures involved, just the movement of your eyeballs to play / pause music. Sound futuristic, right? Well, so let us brief up a word on this captivating thing.

NTT Docomo, a Japanese mobile company demonstrated the incredible “eye controlled earphones” at the MWC 2010. This superfluous piece of technology is nothing but a pair of smart earphones that use electrodes and the charge in your eyes to perform an action.

Basically, the electrodes embedded into the headphones use the charge between one’s retina and cornea to determine what exactly you want to do, like looking right and then left will be considered as your request to play the track.

Similarly, looking right then right will skip the currently playing track and right then left and right will be considered as an action to answer to an incoming call and so on.

Sounds cool, but how cool is it when people around get suspicious about you and your darting eyes. Of course, you can consider otherwise if you think they really knew your intentions with the eye moment at that instance.

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At this point of time, this cool thing may be listed among your favorite crazy gadgets, but nevertheless, this technology is something a bit ahead of time, and people may at first, find the adaptation a little uneasy.

So, what are you waiting for. You already know that in the not-so-distant future, the eye controlled earphones will find a suitable place in the market, somewhere, sometime. But, you still have a lot of space to push-in a comment below for the handsfree headphones of the future.

Watch the video to see the eye controlled earphones in action.