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the headline feature on the new Samsung Galaxy s4 is something called I scroll you can scroll through web pages using just your eyes or even pause a video by looking away from the screen but I scroll just scratches the surface of new eye tracking technologies that could change how we interact with all our devices in the future so when I look at that asteroid they blow up oh my god Swedish company Tobi is building eye tracking into video games you realize it the whole experience you didn't actually use your head no I know fellow Mouse yeah I mean did you see my hands I was sort of like we were creeping up like we can get you a mouse if you go through withdrawal here and they've made it possible to control Windows 8 all with your eyes sorry I'm gonna actually have our gaze interaction falling win8 implementation and so instead of having to reach up and touch the screen it knows where I'm looking the other thing looks cool here as you notice as I'm reading I'm not scrolling it's actually following my reading its scrolling down it's gone to the bottom of the page okay I'm selecting the calculator over my eyes and I'm actually gonna run the calculator again I'm just gonna tap to say select but I'm not she not gonna say 8 or 9 I'm not gonna press 8 or 9 hey Wow amazing right okay you know I have to say I'm starting pardon the pun I'm starting to see it like I'm starting to get the idea of how this would be super useful and natural yeah then there's Virginia based LC technologies this is their eye gaze edge the idea here is that you basically typed with your eyes the computer translates the words on the screen into synthesized speech the eyes can point very precisely so if we can get camera technology that can harness that then we can then turn that into say essentially the same thing as a mouse on the screen I asked one of our producers to Skype with Jeff cañada to give it a try hey how's it going it's going well it's a lovely day a lovely spring day here in Los Angeles how's the weather there in San Francisco for ya it's sunny sunny here so you're typing with your eyes what is that like a little bit fatigued but I think over time you'd get pretty used to it and it gets stronger but it just goes to show you how cool things are getting now like I can just look at your picture on the screen and hover over you right now like this and I can hang up when you with my eyes I think that makes two of us then I tracking as part of a revolution in input a future where we will control devices with our eyes our voice of Mia massage our hands the possibilities of endlessly even our minds I am exhausted it's not clear yet which new input technology or combination of technologies will turn out to be the most useful or effective for now I'm just enjoying the R&D phase doing I'm like an asteroid showdown I'd love to shoot asteroids by looking at them I love the future go I got that one the duel is on I looked right at you remember asteroids having screaming was it always this dark your eye is we're gun I can't save everybody so you believe it is see the pigeon can't stop now can't stop you