Canadian Invention Put in Use by U.S.
TORONTO — (UPI) A Canadian invention which looks like a science-fiction helmet is being snapped up by United States firms and military branches as a sort of spy-on-the-eye.
The device weighs three pounds and sells for a cool $3,900 — which makes it an expensive headpiece.
ITS CALLED AN Optiscan and among those who have used it for training purposes is American Astronaut John Glenn.
It also has been used, not for training purposes, but to show what attracts and holds the eye.
The Optiscan is a helmet on top of which is fastened an 8-mm camera which records what the eye is looking for. A pin-point of light is superimposed on the film to show the exact spot at which the eye is resting.
THE INVENTION is used for training aviators and astronauts, in university psychology labs, in medical clinics and to some extent by market researchers.
It is the brain child of Englishborn scientist Dr. Norman Mackworth and Dr. Llewellyn Thomas who developed it while working for the Defense Medical Research Laboratories at Downsview, Ont.
They wanted to find out how a pilot's gaze flicks over his instrument panel. However, once it was developed, they realized it could have a dozen uses.
CONSUMER RESEARCH is one. The world distributors (Mackworth Associates International of Toronto) say the Optisan can save money—instead of turning out a costly billboard, the advertiser can first show a draft of the board with subjects wearing the helmet. The camera will show what catches and holds the eye.
The distributors, consisting of exjet pilot Gordon Squires, 32, and exinvestment manager George Moore, 32, have taken some film for test purposes to show to potential clients.
In aviation, the camera shows the difference in eve movements between an experienced pilot and a trainee and what can distract him when he comes in for a landing.
DR. THOMAS and Dr. Mackworth have resigned from the defense labs and gone to other fields, but the manufacture and marketing of the
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helmet is being handled by Moore and Squires.
The lecture is on "German Expressionism," and will include a showing of slides and a tour of the German and Austrian expressionism exhibit now showing at the Museum.
They set up their firm last September and have sold primarily to the United States because they had a backlog of orders to catch up on. Many of their customers are universities using the helmets in their psychology labs. Others are big-name companies with U.S. government contracts.
They say Canadian market researchers and some English firms are interested. The Swedish government has bought one on a closed television circuit to eliminate the time needed about one hour—to develop the film.
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Asked if they would sell to iron curtain countries, Squires said:
"We would check with the Canadian and American governments first and if their advice was favorable, we'd go ahead."
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Two modified versions of the helmet are slated for early production. One is to correct "lazy eye" trouble where the viewer has been using the wrong part of his retina for central vision. A second is a remedial reader which could be used in schools to find pupils who are not reading properly.
Tight Parking Proves Costly
JACKSON, Miss. — (UPI) Two compact cars parked in the same meter space have created a problem for Jackson Municipal Court Judge James L. Spencer.
A patrolman this week tagged both vehicles with "double parking" tickets, although they were within the alloted space and the meter was reading correctly.
The owners told the judge the purpose of the meters was to help solve the traffic problem and that they were "just trying to help out by using half the space."
Spencer says there are two theories: "Some say if the motorist rents for an hour he can sub-rent any part, others say its the first man there and the other man is tres-passing."
The prosecutor has been asked to file a brief, and the judge says a decision will be made soon.
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TYLER, Tex. — (UPI) — Rober K. Peters, a blind 20-year-old lay reader of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Texas, has transcribed the complete Book of Common Prayer in Braille.
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NEW YORK — (UPI) — A new use has been found for diamonds, both natural or man-made, according to E. H. Hull. of the General Electric Co. Research Laboratory, Schenectady, N. Y.
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