Eye Tracking technologies have been in the news a lot and can assist us in many ways. Much of this is now transfer technology from the military, but it has lots of uses in the private sector for trucking, race car driving, boating, private aircraft, computer use and even teachers in class rooms trying to keep control of 35 kids who may have forgotten their Prozac.

Here is a site you should view on the subject.

http://www.eyetracking.com

So we see the beginning of what was to be used for the Apache Attack Helicopter for combat now available for the public for lots of great things, such as Biology, Medical, you on your laptop, scrolling without touching. So many great things; for instance in a car in the fog, it would show you infrared or sound sonar pictures of what is there depending on where you look. Great for safety; Great for productivity; Great for protecting America and very good for multi-tasking. Can you see the potential?

How many times have you tried to do three things at once while driving or in the kitchen? Think about it. Imagine speeding up your computers by simply looking at an icon and then focusing on it? It would be great for graphic artists, writers or paralegals. Remember in Minority Report when Tom Cruise simply moved the screens around by waving his hands? Imagine doing it also by looking at something, the simple focus of the eye would enlarge a map to the point you were looking at it. Like on Google Map Search you could focus in my simply looking at a point on the map. Human intent from the focus of an eyeball; wow. Sounds like SciFi; but really we are there now. Think on this, I am.