While, browsing a website I frequent, I came upon the "eyeWriter". This device enables paraplegic people to 'draw' or 'design' with just they eye. The amazing device can be made under $50.00USD and paired with open-source software (free, but contributions welcomed). This tool was brought to reality by a group of people, mostly graffiti artists:
TemptOne
Graffiti Research Lab
openFrameworks
The Ebeling Group
FAT Lab
Zach Lieberman
James Powderly
Evan Roth
Chris Sugrue
Theo Watson
Keith Pasko
LM4K
Eleanor Dunk
Jamie Wilkinson
Greg Leuch
The program isn't a pixel based drawing software, like Photoshop or The Gimp, but rather a vector based--or something like that--software, like Illustrator or Inkscape.
The EyeWriter is allowing artists who have thought they lost the ability to create with normal means, by utilizing an ir (infra-red) led and a PS3 EyeToy and a few miscellaneous items. It would seem as though the difficulty in constructing a pair isn't hard either, basic soldering skills are needed at most.
Check out: The EyeWriter
and this video of it in action:
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