Playing 'Pong' with the Blink of an Eye
From: Imperial College London - 03/26/2010
By: Colin Smith

Imperial College London (ICL) students have developed an open source computer
game where a player moves a bat to hit a ball using only eye movements. To
play the game, the user wears special glasses with a built-in infrared light
and a Webcam that records the movements of one eye. The Webcam is linked to a
computer program that syncs the player's eye movements to the game. The
technology is inexpensive and can be purchased using off-the-shelf hardware
costing about 25 pounds. "Remarkably, our undergraduates have created this
piece of neurotechnology using bits of kit that you can buy in a shop, such
as Webcams," says ICL's Aldo Faisal. Researchers from Faisal's lab are
currently refining the technology so that it can monitor movement in both
eyes, which would allow a user to perform more complicated tasks such as
plotting a route along the screen. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_26-3-2010-9-44-34?newsid=87162

Links:
Aldo Faisal
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.faisal

Faisal Lab Projects
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~afaisal/Site/Projects.html