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I've been looking for hands-free (and preferably silent) ways to control my laptop for the same reason as the OP: When I'm holding our sleeping baby, I don't w
by jawns 15y ago
I've been looking for hands-free (and preferably silent) ways to control my laptop for the same reason as the OP: When I'm holding our sleeping baby, I don't want to risk disturbing him by typing/mousing or by issuing voice commands.
This, as the OP says, is a pretty basic approach -- but it's a start. It's probably best used for longer passages, where the amount of text in the viewport is pretty consistent.
What I'm really looking forward to is when eye-tracking apps get good enough and cheap enough that a browser will automatically scroll based on your eye movements. Add in a couple of other commands -- maybe wink to click, cross your eyes to switch tabs -- and you could do some decent browsing.
Then you'd just need a lip-reading app so you can mouth words and have them converted to text!
- yobriefcase 15y agoLet see how we could improve this. Browser Extension/Plugin with a site whitelist. When you browse to the site and there is significant content below the fold you get a tiny popup informing you that scrolling will start in X seconds unless you hit cancel (or perhaps just move the mouse). All you would have to do is browse to the site (I imagine, ReadItLater, Readability etc. to be typical sites people would use this extension with). Just a though.
- whamill 15y agoSounds like you've got a real use case for the Opera face gestures then? http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/labs-introducing-opera-face-gestures/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/labs-introducing-opera-fa... (April fool 2009 but maybe now more realistic...?)