Company tests eye-controlled wearable gadgets

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The new technology may also enable cell phone cameras to read barcodes used in Japan to get product information, download music andcoupons when the user simply looks at the codes, researchers said.

Fukumoto showed a wearable cell phone shaped like a ring about the size of a ping pong ball. When awearer sticks his fingers in his ears, the sound travels asvibrations through his bones and into his ears, where it is heardas sound again.

Another iteration of the technology appears in a wristwatch thatcan detect the wearer's thumb and forefinger tapping together towork as a remote controller for such gadgets as a DVD player.

The days when wearable technology looks like fancy cumbersome space-suits are over. The latest lookis everyday and inconspicuous, blending into the routine, Fukumotosaid.

"Japanese don't like to stand out," he said.

But when such technology will become real products, if ever, isstill unknown, he said.