| s from the Imperial College London have come up with | | | | program syncs with the eye movements of the player |
| a new computer game that can be controlled by eye | | | | playing the game. Although the game is designed |
| movements. The new gaming invention is the first of | | | | smoothly, the students believe that the core |
| its kind and will hence permit even the physically | | | | technology behind it can be further adapted for |
| disabled people to play games without a minor | | | | creating a series of sophisticated games and other |
| difficulty. The students from the college adapted the | | | | applications for the physically disabled. The IT services |
| new open source game known as Pong. The | | | | technology can be used for designing the wheelchairs |
| players playing the game move their bat in order to hit | | | | and even computer cursors that can be controlled by |
| the ball once it bounces about the screen. The system | | | | the eye movements of the users. |
| allows the players to move their bat accordingly using | | | | The newly developed IT support technology is |
| the movement of their eyes. | | | | inexpensive and uses off-shelfhardware systems for |
| In order to play the game, the player needs just two | | | | its making. The making of the technology costs nearly |
| things. Most primarily, he needs to wear the specially | | | | £25 ($34). However, the eye movement system |
| designed glasses with infrared light and a customized | | | | developed by the scientists for studying the brain and |
| webcam which records the movements of the eyes | | | | eye motion costs much higher than the technology. |
| for playing the game. The webcam is directly | | | | The researchers say that the system costs about |
| connected to the computer or the laptop wherein the | | | | £27,000 ($36,000). The team’s supervisor, Dr. |