With the Samsung Unpacked event ready to (hopefully) blow our minds next week, the buzz surrounding the forthcoming Galaxy S IV, which might see an April release, is reaching a fever pitch. The internet rumor mill has been working overdrive pumping out plausible and equally implausible tidbits about the Samsung’s latest addition to its line of Galaxy smartphones, and while we understand that gossip is a fickle mistress and few details will be confirmed before next week’s event in New York City, we rounded up some of the most pervasive rumors about Samsung’s upcoming superphone.
When you look at your Samsung Galaxy S IV, you just might find your Samsung Galaxy S IV looking back at you. An anonymous source who has allegedly used the device told the New York Times that the Galaxy S IV will come with an new “eye scrolling” feature that utilizes eye tracking technology to intuitively scroll down pages as you’re reading them without you having to lift a finger. Eye Scroll – the name which Samsung trademarked in January – will use the phone’s front-facing camera to determine if your eyeballs are still pointed at the screen before it turns itself off. Additionally, Samsung’s “smart screen” technology will come with a pause feature that will halt video content if you look away from the screen. Samsung’s current flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, comes with Smart Stay, a similar feature that tracks eye movement to determine if a user is still looking at it before automatically dimming, but if Eye Scroll is all it’s cracked up to be, we can look forward to inching one step closer out phones achieving sentience. Probably not, but with features like Eye Scroll and Smart Pause, smartphones are most assuredly getting smarter.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Tech
