Bangalore:Opening a folder, with a wink of your eye! Sounds interesting. Now this is what the world is coming to.Innovation powers invention and they are novel ideas in practice. With new technologies that transform our living being rolled everyday we are not far from what is called as living in virtual world.

The life changing inventions over which the world had gone emphatic sometime ago like the smart machines, predictive software have become things of past by the technically fast generation and the appetite for more is already being witnessed.

Increasing efforts to bridge the digital divide between humans and machines is an ongoing process. Added to this is the comfort zone humans watch out to live in and lead their overtly comfortable lives.

So here are a few exciting man machine interfaces that will help close on the digital gap and change the face of computing in 2012 as quoted by Mashable.

1) Eye Control

Gaze directly at an icon to open an app, browse files with your eyes, and stare at an item to zoom in on it. Does it sound  unbelievable like sci-fi stuff. But all your doubts will be put to rest once you come close to Tobii's Gaze Interaction. This is one system which lets users navigate, scroll, zoom and select using just eyes.

As part of user interface Tobi's OEM components can see laptops, peripherals and game consoles with built-in eye tracking technology

With the potential to make interfaces more adaptive Tobii’s Gaze Interaction comes with  some more features like you can just look at a widget or icon and the item could become responsive and change or update the information displayed