Bad news for
Conjoined twins
Researchers at a Taiwanese university have developed an LCD that tracks a viewer’s movements and then adjusts its settings to give the optimum display. It’s claimed the design can therefore overcome blurred or distorted images when viewing the screen from an angle. The prototype display, developed at the National Chiao Tung …
A TV installed in your living room with a built in camera. Hmm. sounds almost orwellian in nature. How long before all TVs have built in cameras and net connections for “automatic updates”. Sooner rather than later they will all be stealthy switched over from RF reception to government approved broadcasting, streamed from the net, perhaps centrally controlled from somewhere called the “Ministry of Truth”. Live recordings from your living room will be screened 24hrs for the purpose of “finding terrorists”. Yes indeed. Good times ahead.
"It's tracking head movement, not eye movement. It won't be able to tell which portion of the screen you're looking at - just where your head is in relation to the screen. They're two entirely different things, and serve two entirely different functions."
From the article:
"The Taiwanese researchers have also claimed they are already working on improvements to the system by replacing the camera with an infra-red sensor that tracks a user’s eye movements instead"
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Your comment was along the lines of my first thoughts. However, I was soon reminded of the recent news regarding Bush signing a bill into law that broadens the federal government's electronic eavesdropping powers. I then realized that the only reason we don't already live in such a scenario is that there hasn't been a corporation insightful enough to realize the profit potential in first creating the device for US consumers, then secretly selling software to the US govt. that allows them access to these devices via the internet.
Or is this what this article is really about?