This isn’t 100% game related, but I figured I would spare you guys yet another article of Modern Warfare 2 today and show you something slightly different.

Graffic artist Tony Quan from LA suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).  Don’t worry, I had to look up how to spell it and say it too.  The only part of Mr. Quan’s body that he is able to move is his eyes and eyelids.  Nothing else works.  He has to spend the rest of his days in a hospital bed.  His brain however is fully active and able to process all sorts of artistic ideas.  So how is an artistic man like Mr. Quan who can barely move his eyes going to show off all of the graphical things in his head that are constantly swirling around? The Eyewriter Project.

The Eyewriter is a device that uses open source software and normal over the counter technology (a disassembled PS3 Eye camera) to let Tony be able to get his artwork shown to millions of people.  This amazing technology allows Tony to move and blink his eyes to have the PS3 Eye camera (which is attached to glasses) track his pupils to create lines and objects.  Moving his eye from left to right creates a line, and blinking for him stops the creation of that line.  It’s pretty amazing stuff to see what this camera can do.  In the program he is able to follow his eyepoint in the form of a little red cursor, able to create anything he wants.

Tony loves graffiti and its overall style, and it hearkens back to his younger days tagging subway cars and trains.  So to help Tony’s art  feel right at home the guys go a little step further for him and take his creations off of the hospital wall and go project them onto a major building just off an interstate at night.  Thousands of people are traveling on this interstate only to look over and see graffiti being created before their very eyes.

Unfortunately the video above is a short compilation of video clips from the documentary that will be coming out soon on the whole ordeal, but you can read more on the disease, The Eyewriter Project, and Tony Quan’s accomplishments with the link provided below.

I was very hesitant to post something like this for you guys, but it’s cool to see gaming tech that we might take for granted every day to send pictures of buttcracks and penis shots to each other being used to help someone express themselves who otherwise can’t.  You can find out more on the project at the following link.

[The Eyewriter Project]