Interactive Gestures: Designing Gestural Interfaces

Cnet’s Crave reports that Kazuhiro Taniguchi, a researcher in Osaka University’s Graduate School of Engineering, has developed a device called the KomeKami Switch (Temple Switch) that allows users to control their iPod music player via eye winks. “The KomeKami Switch can be clipped to eyeglasses or headphones and will respond to various combinations of winks by remotely controlling play, pause, replay, and skip functions of the iPod. The gadget uses infrared sensors and a microcomputer to detect differences in the movement of your skin when you wink.”