Gadgetory

you may be able to control your next tablet with your eyes I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it's day two of the 2013 International Consumer Electronic Show and this is where we get a peek of what the future may hold for our gadgets there's tons to talk about but here's a quick breakdown of the tech that has our attention one of the most interesting smartphones ever before seen here has been to yotaphone not yoda from Star Wars this is filled why OTA it looks like a normal Android phone from the front but the back has an e touchscreen display the whole point of having a inc on the back is to help save your battery life since it takes up so little juice when powers running low just switch whatever you're doing to the back screen or customize the back to show a photo or a nap and even though Gorilla Glass 3 was just announced days before CES this Yoda phone prototype already has it plus it's curved on the e-ink site to help improve readability talk about a phone that can shake things up the company still is refining the design and plans to first release it in Russia this year before taking it to other countries and they are shopping it around to US carriers and speaking of battery savers imagine charging your cell phone by using the power from your tablet and you don't need a cord to do it we've seen wireless charging before but Fulton innovation is showing off this new concept of transferring power from device to device wirelessly your phone can be both a power receiver and transmitter let's hope device makers get on this for future gear a startup called the eye tribe has shown how future devices can be controlled with your eyes the team hacked a Windows 8 tablet and installed infrared sensors and a camera and design software that follows your I've movements leading you scroll through a page just by how you look at the screen you can even use your eyes to play games when I tried it out I was able to play fruit ninja and slice up the fruit just by looking at it makes you feel like you have superpowers but aside from gaming possibilities the eye tribe says this could bring I control technology to people with disabilities and it would cost manufacturers only a dollar more for the parts in a tablet or phone and using your hands is also a thing of the past with remote control helicopters neuro skies showed off the puzzlebox orbit which could be flown with your mind simply by concentrating and of course CES is a place to find a solution to your problems like having windows they installed on a non-touchscreen computer the touch eight smart pen is a stylus that works on non touch screens the $80 pin connects to a USB port learns the corners of the screen and awakens the power of touch our editors did have a little trouble getting it to work right but it does show that something may be available soon to bring touch to normal monitors there's lots more coming up during the week so stay tuned to a live streaming coverage at cnet com / live and catch up on all the news at CES cnet com from CES 2013 in Las Vegas I'm Bridget Carey