17-year-old Luis Fernando Cruz - teenager in Honduras is winning praise
for developing an inexpensive eyeball tracking system that could change
the way disabled people use computers.
The system operates through electrodes built into a pair of inexpensive
glasses. The interface then tracks horizontal eye movement by measuring
small electrical changes generated by the eye-ball. The software
translates these changes into inputs that choose letters in a grid,
providing people with motor disabilities a new way to communicate.
For Cruz, the eye-tracking keyboard was a natural follow-up to his first invention.
"At 16, I developed the first video console in Honduras, the first video
game console ever made in Honduras. Then I did other projects and then I
became interested in the interface between humans and the computer so I
began this project."