as nasdaq stockholm tobii industry hardware and software development founded sweden 2001 founders john elvesj area served worldwide key people kent sander chairman john elvesj vice president and cto henrik eskilsson ceo products aac devices eye tracking products for research and market analysis . eye tracking components for industrial integration . revenue 621 million sek 2014 1 number of employees 600 1 parent tobii ab subsidiaries tobii technology inc tobii dynavox llc tobii technology gmbh tobii technology norge tobii technology ltd tobii electronics technology suzhou co . ltd website www.tobii.com tobii formerly known as tobii technology ab is a swedish high technology company that develops and sells products for eye control and eye tracking . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit john elvesjo m rten skog and henrik eskilsson founded the company in 2001 . all three founders play an active role in the company henrik eskilsson is the ceo john elvesj is vice president and cto and m rten skog is chief science officer . the tobii group consists of three business units tobii dynavox from an acquisition of us based dynavox 2 tobii pro and tobii tech . tobii is based in stockholm sweden with offices in the us japan china germany norway and ukraine . tobii became publicly traded on april 22 2015 3 trading on the stockholm stock exchange . in 2007 the company got 14 million in venture capital from investor growth capital . 4 in may 2009 investor amadeus capital partners and northzone ventures invested an additional 16 million 5 and at the start of 2012 intel capital invested 21 million . 6 in 2008 tobii won the swedish grand award of design together with the design company myra industriell design for the technology and design in their eye controlled screens . 7 in 2010 tobii won the sime grand prize for having the most innovative technology concept . in 2011 tobii glasses won the red dot design award an international product design competition and later the same year tobii won the bully award . in 2012 tobii took home the award for best prototype at the consumer technology tradeshow 2012 ces and laptop magazine named tobii the winner in its best new technology category . products edit tobii s products are sold directly and through resellers and partners worldwide . people with communication disabilities use tobii dynavox s technical devices and language tools aac devices to communicate . due to their high cost they are often the goal of charity drives . 8 9 10 11 tobii pro has products that are widely used for research in the academic community and to conduct usability studies and market surveys of commercial products . tobii tech is the business unit that partners with others to integrate eye tracking and eye control in different industry applications and fields such as advanced driver assistance 12 consumer computing 13 14 and gaming . at the consumer electronics show 2012 they demonstrated the tobii gaze an infrared light based eye tracking device that makes it possible for users to use their eyes to point and interact with a standard computer . 15 in 2014 tobii partnered with danish steelseries and launched their first eye tracking system for consumers the tobii eyex and the steelseries sentry eye tracker . 16 several video games from major publishers were released in 2015 16 with support for tobii s consumer devices with varying levels of success . 17 18 19 ulrich and his tobii communication device tobii s eye controlled arcade game ; eyeasteroids snap on tobii x1 light eye tracker from 2012 for portable labs references edit a b about tobii our business & organization . tobii . retrieved 17 march 2016 . tobii acquires aac leader dynavox systems llc press release . 22 may 2014 . retrieved 17 march 2016 . sweden s tobii sets ipo price range at 22 25 sek share . reuters . 13 april 2015 . retrieved 17 march 2016 . tobii technology raises 14m in funding from investor growth capital press release . businesswire . 26 march 2007 . retrieved 17 march 2016 . tobii technology raises 16m funding press release . mrweb . 15 may 2009 . retrieved 17 march 2016 . grundberg sven 16 march 2012 . intel invests in tobii eye tracker . the wall street journal . retrieved 17 march 2016 . bergsell thomas 6 may 2008 . gonstyrda bildsk rmar tilldelas stora designpriset grand award of design awarded for eye tracking screens in swedish . retrieved 17 march 2016 . rose beth 17 march 2016 . breaking the silence at 16 years old with the words hello mum . bbc news . retrieved 17 march 2016 . weaver stephanie 2 march 2016 . appeal to raise 20 000 for must have equipment for intensive care patients at hospital in northamptonshire . northampton chronicle & echo . retrieved 17 march 2016 . roberts emily 13 july 2013 . winklebury mum esther camp will shave off her bright pink hair . basingstoke gazette . retrieved 17 march 2016 . anonymous cash donation helps disabled three year old s dreams of communicating come true . express & star . 7 january 2015 . retrieved 17 march 2016 . byrne ciara 30 november 2011 . tobii keeps an eye on distracted drivers . venturebeat . retrieved 17 march 2016 . levine barry 6 march 2012 . here comes the next generation of eye tracking . top tech news . retrieved 17 march 2016 . van camp jeffrey 15 march 2011 . death of the mouse how eye tracking technology could save the pc . digital trends . retrieved 17 march 2016 . chan casey 8 january 2012 . i just controlled windows 8 with my eyes and it made me believe in technology again . retrieved 17 march 2016 . nayan kamal 5 january 2014 . eyex controller steelseries and tobii technology team up to take on kinect with eye tracking controller . retrieved 17 march 2016 . kamen matt 10 july 2015 . is the gaming eye tracker worth keeping an eye on . the guardian . retrieved 17 march 2016 . hachman mark 17 feb 2016 . tobii eyex review the eye mouse is magical but just not for everyone . pc world . retrieved 17 march 2016 . gent edd 14 september 2015 . eye tracking tech countdown to lift off . engineering & technology . retrieved 17 march 2016 . external links edit official website wikimedia commons has media related to tobii technology . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tobii technology & oldid 744456751 categories cognitive sciencecompanies based in stockholmcompanies established in 2001technology companies of swedenvisionhidden categories cs1 swedish language sources sv official website different in wikidata and wikipediacommons category template with no category setcommons category without a link on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschsvenska edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 09 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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