fedora-list digest, Vol 1 #356 - 28 msgs

[Chris Kloiber]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:09, Rob Park wrote:
> Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> > Agreed. Actually, I often find myself expecting the system to give focus
> > to the window I'm looking at. But maybe that's asking a little too much.
> 
> Yeah, that'd be nice. "focus strictly under eyeballs".
> 
> I don't think it'll be long (maybe 10 or 20 years) before somebody 
> invents a "pointing device" that controls your mouse cursor by measuring 
> your eyeball movements and simply have the cursor move to wherever you 
> are looking at. Combine this with the "focus strictly under mouse" that 
> I described in another email, and it'd be pure bliss :)

10 or 20 years? The military already does this for aiming weapons in
attack helicopters. Just a matter of the technology making the leap to
consumer use.

-- 
Chris Kloiber
Red Hat, Inc.