New eye-tracking glasses show others what you’re looking at in real time

Researchers and marketers often want to know what catches your eye, whether it’s players on the basketball court or just a new shampoo at the store. They may have an easier time figuring this out with Tobii’s latest eye-tracking headset, the Tobii Glasses 2. Besides providing a much wider field of view than the original eyewear, the new design has a front-facing 1080p camera that lets observers see whatever you’re focused on in real time — they’ll know right away if something gets your attention. The four eye-facing cameras and new software also offer more precise gaze data than the last time around.

As with Tobii’s earlier glasses, you won’t be buying a personal pair any time soon. At a minimum $14,900 price, the hardware is really meant for product developers, sports teams and others who could easily earn back the expense. All the same, the technology could still make a big impact on your life — whether it’s livelier packaging at the shop or better performance from your favorite athlete.

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: Tobii

Generate power to recharge gadgets while grilling with this camp stove

BioLite has been recharging smartphones, action cams and GPS units via camp stove fire since 2012, but now it’s offering a larger model that will grill enough grub to feed your entire crew. The BaseCamp stove offers the same heat-to-electricity conversion, but with a much larger cooking surface for grilling dinner (up to eight burgers at a time) for more than just a pair of weary hikers. The built-in power pack has been upgraded as well, generating 5W and storing power for juicing up devices during dessert alongside a UI that gauges temperature and displays the amount of electricity being generated. Need to use a pot to boil water? That cooking surface can wrangle the flame for optimal output with the flip of a lever. If all of that sounds too good to pass up, units are set to ship in September and you can one for $299 during the company’s Kickstarter effort.

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Via: Uncrate

Source: Kickstarter

The NSA is recording all cellphone calls in the Bahamas

You might want to be careful of what you say over the phone the next time you visit the Bahamas. According to The Intercept, NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal that the security agency is not just listening to all mobile calls made to, from and within the island nation, but also recording and archiving them for up to a month. Apparently the access was legally obtained via the US Drug Enforcement Administration and is part of a top-secret program called SOMALGET, which itself is a piece of MYSTIC, a larger NSA program that The Washington Post wrote about in March. While MYSTIC can detect metadata such as the time, location and date of the call, SOMALGET can supposedly store “full-take audio” or the call’s entire contents.

The Intercept reports that MYSTIC is already deployed in countries such as Mexico, the Philippines and Kenya, but SOMALGET is unique to the Bahamas and a mysterious “unnamed country” that the publication refuses to divulge in fear of violent retaliation. The documents state that SOMALGET was enacted to locate “international narcotics traffickers and special-interest alien smugglers,” though it appears that the NSA has been recording calls indiscriminately, regardless of their connection to the drug trade. Neither the NSA or any of the countries mentioned had any comment, though the agency did tell The Intercept that it does attempt to “protect the privacy of U.S. persons” for “incidentally collected” communications.

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Source: The Intercept