| Summary: | The article reports on the National Research Council of Canada's introduction of the nouse, a system that allows for cursor control by tracking the tip of the user's nose. Researcher Dmitry Gorodnichy, whose latest effort zeroed in on the nose because of its convenient location on the face. Gorodnichy's team focused on using one camera, a basic computer Webcam and wrote the software to track the nose with precision, despite the resolution issues that come with a bargain camera. Gorodnichy expects the first nouse application to be in a system for hospital patients who are largely paralyzed.
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