 with this Utah-born technology it takes more mental effort to tell why works what it's used for and see if Fox 13's John Franke can stump it live from Fox 13 studios this is Fox 13 news at 9 no to the soul can they also reveal whether you're being honest technology developed right here in Utah uses the eyes to test whether someone is telling the truth or if they're lying Fox 13's John Franke put this new-age lie detector to the test he joins us tonight to explain how it could be a game changer in criminal investigations John well guys it's called I detect the science was researched at the University of Utah now a Lehigh company is using that innovation to create a lie detector this tech may seem futuristic but Hollywood may have seen it coming decades ago fluctuation of the pupil involuntary dilation of the iris maybe real life can imitate art the 1982 sci-fi hit Blade Runner used eye detection as an investigative tool now that technology is no longer a fantasy we are 86 to 90 accurate Utah based company can various if they're telling the truth then then we we see no difference between how the eyes react develop the technology called I detect to weed out a liar I detect has an eye tracker that captures all of these changes at 60 times per second a camera you can't even see focuses on a subject's eyes it takes more mental effort to tell lie than to tell the truth that camera catches things not even the best liars can control when there's this exertion of additional mental effort the eyes change how do they change they dilate up to a tenth of a millimeter I detect test results are still finding their place in police investigations and the court system across the country the Idaho internet crimes against children task force use the tests in a sting of sex offenders they would test them on whether or not they had had any sexual contact with a minor to get some suspects to admit to more crimes and of course the majority of these people failed Todd Nicholson the company's CEO ads in 2018 a judge in New Mexico was the first to allow a test result to be admitted into evidence I'm very confident in the results Brett Magelby is licensed to administer eye detect in Utah I'm a skeptic by nature because I have a law enforcement officer now in the private sector he gives the test to people accused of a crime I detect gives us attorneys an opportunity to really introduce some additional evidence about their clients have you sit down we wanted to put eye detect to the test in this case you're gonna deliberately lie about having written down a number without anyone except our camera watching you write it down without us seeing so this isn't completely blind I was asked to pick a number between two and nine to be honest on all the phrases that are presented to you except for the phrase that deals with that number you just wrote down or effectively you're going to deny having written a number for several minutes I did not write the number three true okay the computer grills me I did not pick three as the number that I wrote asking question after question about numbers it was not the number that baked and I lie I picked the number seven today when the computer asked if I chose the number seven to is the number that I chose after nearly 10 minutes the test is over you can see that's you I'm not cheating this report reveals my faith we believe the number was seven I detect caught me in a lie your eyes dilated when you lied on the number seven this chart shows how my eyes reacted when I was telling the truth versus when I was lying here's the number seven your pupils were 3.4 millimeters the next closest was 6 at 2.99 millimeters the difference between a lie and the truth is small but those hundreds of a millimeter that little bit and it says uncontrollable no I mean you can't feel it you can't control it you don't even know what's happening all it takes to read your mind it's a test designed to provoke an emotional response shall we continue an interesting note Blade Runner is actually set in November of 2019 but they've built now 5,000 specific tests they can test you know if somebody is a sex offender if they've stolen anything tests like that and here in Utah choose by people mostly accused of a crime they're trying to tell investigators hey it wasn't me so they take this test if it says they are telling the truth they can present that to an investigator and try to avoid charges wow John has this been used in any prominent cases that they could reveal in Utah right here right now it's not admissible in court because the state laws here but you both have kids sure of it to ask your kids hey you don't need it for some work you don't need it for some of them I've got the mom look yeah I don't need that test but these tests cost about 60 to 300 dollars each test so it's a pretty inexpensive way to see if someone's lying let me ask you real quickly before we let you go there was very little margin between the truth and a lie explain how they're able to tell in that small margin they ask you a baseline test so they they with all those questions they build up that baseline so your eyes have that number of where they are when you're telling the truth and they ask you some questions like you know is Africa south of the equator certain questions like that that are pretty obvious that you're you're not gonna lie on and it builds that baseline so when you are lying that little difference makes all the difference yeah and beautiful baby blues John yeah thank you so much such an interesting story and based right here in Utah right here in Utah just down Utah County thanks so much live from box 13 studios this is live at 430 if the eyes are the window to the soul can they also reveal whether you're being honest technology developed here in Utah uses the eyes to test whether someone is telling the truth or lying Fox 13's John Franke put this new age lie detector to the test live from box 13 studios this is box 13's good day you find by me if the eyes are the window to the soul can they also reveal whether or not you're being honest technology developed right here in Utah uses the eyes to test whether someone's telling the truth or lying box 13's John Franke put this new age lie detector to the test it's called eye detect and the science work was to bella trying to find that extra piece of evidence that just might prove their innocence in the studio John Franke Fox 13 news Utah my eyes are always dilated I know mine are too but they really are always lying to all of us did my people just change a little bit takes one and no one alley what are you talking about I'll be curious to know if that ends up being like Houston court and how that information well that's what they're talking about yeah so if it ends up being like a common thing right interesting it'll be common in my house but where were you last night okay where's I detect look at me with your eyes your pupils hey so you would think that may be seeing a surprise performance from Drake would make a crowd happy but then we ran a lie detector dust just kidding look at this