You stare at a ceiling light and it switches on. The same applies when you stare at the coffee machine or focus your eyes on the button showing your preferred washing machine cycle. You refocus on the “on” button and away it goes.
Looking intently at the television switches it on and you watch a streaming channel. The ads all look appealing. Somehow the TV knows which ads you like from your mood when watching earlier ones. And your home robot slinks around the corner, out of sight, having discerned you are in a filthy mood.
This isn’t telepathy. It isn’t the distant future. It’s part of how we are about to communicate with electronic devices. It’s potentially our most intimate interaction with machines.
Devices that scan your eyes, judge where you look, glean your mood and act on electrical signals from your brain are not science fiction. Versions exist now and they’re coming to your phone, tablet, notebook and PC.
Even basic face recognition software is becoming more sophisticated and reaching new markets.
In Israel a Tel Aviv start-up called Faception reportedly has developed technology that identifies character traits and mood, including spotting who may be a terrorist, by analysing a person’s face.
In Russia, start-up NTechLab has launched an app called Findface that reportedly seeks to match photos you take in the street with members of Russian social network Vkontakte.
News site Digital Trends reports that so far FindFace has performed about one quadrillion photo comparisons using images from Vkontakte, which has about 200 million profiles.
That’s just the start. Companies that specialise in iris tracking, that harness cameras and artificial intelligence to read and interpret emotions, and devices that pick up the electrical signals sent to muscles from the brain are a growing multi-billion-dollar economy. And the big tech companies are investing in them.
Read More@ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/personal-technology/technology-facial-recognition-to-eye-scans-and-thought-control/news-story/427d8980994955e916341887dfd5e65e
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