NEW YORK — Ever wish your eyes were lasers? A laptop prototype brings that wish closer to reality.
It tracks your gaze and figures out where you’re looking on the screen. That means, among other things, that you can play a game where you burn up incoming asteroids with a laser that hits where you look.
In another demonstration, the computer scrolled text on the screen in response to eye movements, sensing when the reader reached the end of the visible text.
In the future, a laptop like this could make the mouse cursor appear where you’re looking or make a game character maintain eye contact with you, according to Tobii Technology Inc., the Swedish firm that’s behind the tracking technology.
The laptop is made by Lenovo Corp. and incorporates Tobii’s eye-tracking cameras in a “hump” on the cover, making the entire package about twice as thick as a regular laptop.
