Does This Headline Know You're Reading It? 140
An anonymous reader writes "Not yet, but it could. German artificial intelligence researchers are combining JavaScript with eye-tracking hardware to create 'text 2.0,' which 'infers user intentions.' Unimportant words also fade out while you're skimming the text, and a bookmark automatically appears if you glance away. It can pronounce the words you're reading, and reading certain words can trigger the appearance of footnotes or even translations, biographies, definitions, and sound effects or animations, almost like the truly interactive books in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. 'With the help of an eye tracker, Text 2.0 follows your progress and presents effects just in time,' the researchers explain in a video. Meanwhile, DFKI has already created a free 'Processing Easy Eye Tracker plugin' (or PEEP) to manipulate windows with what they call 'gaze-controlled tab expose,' while there's speculation similar technology may be adopted by Apple. Apple has already purchased Tobii's eye-tracking hardware, and 'Whether these are for internal research only or for a future product, Apple is characteristically not saying.'"
Duct tape (Score:1, Funny)
/problem
It can only work if everyone has a webcam (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Duct tape (Score:3, Funny)
/problem
I think your right on this, but we may need to crowd source the job of finding these German researchers in order to apply the Duct Tape so they don't ever do this sort of research again.
Re:This will do wonders ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nothing "2.0" (Score:4, Funny)
Text 2.0? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Do companies pay attention to details (Score:2, Funny)
These lab tests always seem to fail in the real world.
Until they succeed.
Oh, no (Score:5, Funny)
popUp( "you looked away from this messages; please look back");
playSound("annoyingBleep.mid");
setPicture("porno_woman.jpg");
);
onLookAt( popUp(" Please click the link");
playSound("click+click+click.mid");
setPicture("Advert.jpg");
);
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