Eye-trackers, devices that use small cameras to measure the motion of eyes, are often used to assist the disabled in digitally highlighting and spelling text. The technology is extremely expensive, with costs ranging anywhere from $10,000 to $15,000 for each pair. Yet Zachary Lieberman, the co-creator of OpenFrameworks and an assistant professor at Parsons, developed an eye-tracker for only $50.
Speaking at our recent Most Creative People event, Lieberman (featured as #36 on our list) told audiences the powerful story of how L.A. graffiti artist Tony Quan inspired his invention, which he calls the EyeWriter. Quan, who was paralyzed from Lou Gehrig's disease seven years ago, was only able to communicate with his eyes. But with Lieberman's innovative technology, created from open-source software and off-the-shelf components, Quan was able to draw images, write words, and eventually spray graffiti once again.
"[It] was the first time I've drawn anything since 2003," said Quan, of Lieberman's invention.
Speaking at our recent Most Creative People event, Lieberman (featured as #36 on our list) told audiences the powerful story of how L.A. graffiti artist Tony Quan inspired his invention, which he calls the EyeWriter. Quan, who was paralyzed from Lou Gehrig's disease seven years ago, was only able to communicate with his eyes. But with Lieberman's innovative technology, created from open-source software and off-the-shelf components, Quan was able to draw images, write words, and eventually spray graffiti once again.
"[It] was the first time I've drawn anything since 2003," said Quan, of Lieberman's invention.
- 7/15/2010
- by Austin Carr
- Fast Company
My name is Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo and this is my guest post for the just-concluded Independent Film Week here in New York. Along with Zachary Lieberman (co-creator of The West Side), I spoke on Monday’s panel “Your Film Online,” and I wanted to expand here on some thoughts I shared during that panel — mostly in response to the prevailing wisdom that “the sky is falling” on independent film. (This is also cross-posted on my own blog, No Film School). I’m a New Face of independent film, not an Industry Veteran, so maybe it’s naiveté that leads me to have a very different outlook on distribution than The Film Department CEO Mark Gill, whose comments in June were still on everyone’s lips at Ifw. After proclaiming, “As it relates to independent...
- 9/24/2008
- by Jason Guerrasio
- Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives
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