At CHI 2009 (computer Human Interaction conference,) many new modalities of interface were demonstrated. One of the more practical was the product of a team from ETH Zurich's Wearable Computing lab. Vaguely resembling the bastard child of a set of safety glasses and a HMD, the EOG goggles are an eye movement tracking system, that requires no external hardware to operate.

Augmented reality tagging has begun to creep forwards as a technology for some years now. If you can co-ordinate virtual data with physical locations, you can tag something, and correlate to a virtual database. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a system which is designed as a memory aid for the elderly, to build on this concept.

(01/11/2005)
Its official, video eyewear is taking off in a big way. The latest of these half-breeds between HMDs and HUDs is Seventh Heaven's 'Portable Home Theatre'.

A monoscopic unit, this eyewear unit, actually closer to a HMD than...

(18/04/2010)
US giant Google has moved to strengthen its visual search engine tool Google Goggles with the purchase of start-up Plink for an undisclosed amount, Plink's founders announced on Monday.

Google Goggles and Plink both allow pe...

(09/05/2010)
Google on Thursday released free software that lets smartphones based on its Android operating systems be used as language translation tools.

Google enhanced its Goggles application to read and translate English, French, Ital...

(15/12/2009)
Smartphone users no longer need to think up an appropriate phrase when searching the web on the go ? at least, not if they are using Google's Android operating system.

"You take a picture of an item and use that picture as ...

(15/05/2012)
Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people who have lost vision because of certain types...