ZTE announces Project CSX's finalist: Eye-Tracking smartphone to debut by late 2017
Well-known Mobile and Smartphone makers ZTE announced that the winning entry of its Project CSX.It was a crowd-sourced competition for tech stars and small & large tech enterprises who wanted to showcase creative and innovative ideas to be implemented in current mobile technology. The selected entry is definitely going develop into a revolution in the upcoming year.
According to a post meant to congratulate the winner of the competition by the host ZTE, the winning entry was actually selected among the entries what looks like to be precisely 400 in terms of number. About countless comments from the community portrayed their feedback on these ideas. Consumers from all around the world viewed and reviewed all the innovative scales. Finally, viewers and tech fans from around 176 countries to be exact voted for the winning entry which was projected Team One Technology.
The selected entry is a tremendous smartphone which can be operated by Eye movements only. According to ZTE, this Eye-Tracking phone is very innovative and Team One Technology didi a fantastic work in explaining their idea, drafting the design and illustrating how a consumer would use and benefit from the product. The phone will enable a user to track and scroll the phone by only using his/her eyes. Users don't need to use finger gestures to operate this revolutionary masterpiece.
The team even went beyond eye-tracking and took the additional initiative to offer its consumers with a complete tech-driven experience. As its projected to be hands-free, the consumer should be able to position the device somewhere and operate without even holding in their own hands.Thus, the team created the sensational concept of a self-adhesive backing that allows the phone to be mounted to a wall or flat surface. This will definitely make the device more approachable to those who work and operate their devices in diverse conditions like we see in outdoors. Additionally, it will be easily operated without any chance of getting wet in sweaty conditions
The voting lines for selection of CSX project was open for all. Thousands of voters selected from a comprehensive lot of initial entries that were narrowed down to five entries this week. Lixin Cheng, CMD and CEO of ZTE USA stated about this initiative "As the first smartphone manufacturer to take on crowdsourcing its next mobile device from start to finish, we are proud of how this project pushed the envelope, and that consumers from around the world have chosen to be part of this industry-disrupting process."
Among the last five, the eye-controlled, self-adhesive masterpiece won with a majority 36% votes and qualified as the final. ZTE will work with the winner Team One Technology to design, engineer, and manufacture. The device, integrated with all the expected features, is highly speculated to launch by the last quarter of 2017.