Imagine what technology can not do? It seems every thing is doable. This time your eyes is going to control electronic devices. Like earphones. it is a great example of how electronic devices could evolve beyond what we use today.

Just remember your eyes not finger and control the volume of your earphones, alongside a change in tracks. NTT DoCoMo launches their new eye-controlled earphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. All eye movement is detected by electrodes, enabling users to send commands to their device where among them include play, pause, and skip. This is made possible since eyeballs contain minute electrical potential which can be measured by sticking electrodes in our ears. Apparently, specific eye gestures can be recorded to perform just about any command on a smartphone. We do wonder whether it is really more convenient compared to the tried and tested method of using one’s fingers and buttons. We’ve also seen eye-controlled cellphones at CEATEC last year, if you’re interested in such technology.

Do you know your eyeballs have electric potential and “the potential around the eye changes according to eye movement”. And so the electrode-bearing earphones pick up the impulses from your roving eyes and turn the signal into a command for your mobile.

An employee of NIT docomo wearing the earphones at the NTT docomo stand seemed to have smooth controlling a simple music-playing application: look right then left to play, right then right to skip, right then left then right again to answer an incoming call.

The new tech is “simple, quiet and hands-free”, which is demonstrably true – though in many typical hands-free situations you wouldn’t want to be darting your eyes about and not, say, watching where you’re walking or driving.