Eyeborg.
March 12, 2009 10:04 AM Subscribe
A one eyed filmmaker gets a camera-eye.
"Take a one eyed film maker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that's never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project. Rob Spence and Kosta Grammatis are trying to make history by embedding a video camera and a transmitter in a prosthetic eye. That eye is going in Robs eye socket, and will record the world from a perspective that's never been seen before."
"Take a one eyed film maker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that's never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project. Rob Spence and Kosta Grammatis are trying to make history by embedding a video camera and a transmitter in a prosthetic eye. That eye is going in Robs eye socket, and will record the world from a perspective that's never been seen before."
This post was deleted for the following reason: I spy with my doubled eye -- cortex
I thought I saw this here, but now I can't seem to find the link.
It's cool, though I kinda wish they'd also given him an eye with a laser in it.
posted by klangklangston at 10:07 AM on March 12, 2009
It's cool, though I kinda wish they'd also given him an eye with a laser in it.
posted by klangklangston at 10:07 AM on March 12, 2009
Well, to be fair to you, he's moved URLs since the last post...
If you haven't watched it yet, the bit in the recent video where they hook the eye-camera up to the power source and smoke starts coming out of it is rather entertaining.
posted by flashboy at 10:11 AM on March 12, 2009
If you haven't watched it yet, the bit in the recent video where they hook the eye-camera up to the power source and smoke starts coming out of it is rather entertaining.
posted by flashboy at 10:11 AM on March 12, 2009
Warning, that video is not for the squeemish! Yikes!
posted by sandking at 10:19 AM on March 12, 2009
posted by sandking at 10:19 AM on March 12, 2009
Be seeing you.
posted by mkb at 10:25 AM on March 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by mkb at 10:25 AM on March 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
When I pretend I'm having a conversation in the 'future', I like to say this:
Remember the days before we could directly record what our eyes see?
Not extremely likely to happen, but it's really just a placeholder for some technological advance that we won't see coming—which sort of sucks, because if that happens, we won't be able to record it with our camera-eyes.
posted by defenestration at 10:25 AM on March 12, 2009
Remember the days before we could directly record what our eyes see?
Not extremely likely to happen, but it's really just a placeholder for some technological advance that we won't see coming—which sort of sucks, because if that happens, we won't be able to record it with our camera-eyes.
posted by defenestration at 10:25 AM on March 12, 2009
Why was I not surprised to see Steve Mann show up in this video. I love crazy shit like this. I'm surprised that robo-eyes aren't further along now.
posted by chunking express at 10:35 AM on March 12, 2009
posted by chunking express at 10:35 AM on March 12, 2009
Heard about this on the radio the other day - I wanted to link to it in the Aimee Mullins thread. We are on the threshold of an entirely new and ethically problematic situation: how long before healthy people start having limbs or eyes replaced with instruments that are superior to what we are born with?
posted by Xoebe at 10:58 AM on March 12, 2009
posted by Xoebe at 10:58 AM on March 12, 2009
"That eye is going in Robs eye socket, and will record the world from a perspective that's never been seen before."
To be fair, while none of us has seen anything out of that one guy's eye, we've seen things from that perspective.
My only question is: does his sight picture include a mil-dot reticle and a list of possible responses to common questions?
posted by blixco at 10:58 AM on March 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
To be fair, while none of us has seen anything out of that one guy's eye, we've seen things from that perspective.
My only question is: does his sight picture include a mil-dot reticle and a list of possible responses to common questions?
posted by blixco at 10:58 AM on March 12, 2009 [1 favorite]
"If only you could see the things I have seen with your eyes"...
-- Roy Batty
posted by DreamerFi at 11:14 AM on March 12, 2009
-- Roy Batty
posted by DreamerFi at 11:14 AM on March 12, 2009
This is a bit like the Aimee Mullins post yesterday. It's amazingly cool, cool enough that its probably easy for any of us to imagine wanting this if we lost an eye. That's step one.
But more interesting to me is how close this is to be worth losing an eye (or legs) for. The time at which it will actually be more desirable to have a camera eye (or bionic legs) than normal ones is coming soon, in our lifetimes, and people will choose to remove their natural organs in favor of technology assists.
For real. Soon. It makes me feel all tingly, though that's probably just the stim-suit.
posted by rokusan at 11:24 AM on March 12, 2009
But more interesting to me is how close this is to be worth losing an eye (or legs) for. The time at which it will actually be more desirable to have a camera eye (or bionic legs) than normal ones is coming soon, in our lifetimes, and people will choose to remove their natural organs in favor of technology assists.
For real. Soon. It makes me feel all tingly, though that's probably just the stim-suit.
posted by rokusan at 11:24 AM on March 12, 2009
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