Eyeborg still in Process

[bec_87rb]

Rob Spence, a Toronto filmmaker, has replaced his glass eye with a camera, so he can film people more naturally. The technology hasn't produced a really good image yet, but if they can get the camera part to produce better resolution, he plans to broadcast interviews from his eye camera over the internet. stuff that amuses the hell outta me, tv, wtf, live shows, plastic surgery

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[uplinktruck]

Something about that makes shudder. Not really sure what it is.

From a purely technical standpoint I would question the wisdom of any kind of RF transmitter inside the skull with the brain. And they are talking about putting in a stronger transmitter...

[bec_87rb]

Yeah, do you want a radio emitter without even bone to act as an absorber before that energy gets to your frontal lobes? I mean, your eyes are big soft holes in your brain pan; why use a lobotomy tool when you can just cook the stuff, right? I assume they are using some kind of shielding? Forget your brain, the skin near there is thin and prone to skin cancers, and who knows what amount of direct output is needed to increase cancer risk?

Then again people now wear phones hooked to their skulls just over their parietal lobes, so...

OTOH, I really want to watch a video feed from an eye-cam. That would be kewl.

[suegypt]

Actually, each eyeball is encased in a thin bony cup; just the optical nerve travels into the brain. But even the densest bony parts of the skull are no match for radio transmitters, this is part of why we are only supposed to get so much x-rays/radiation treatments in a lifetime.

Do you guys remember those little x-ray machines they had in shoe stores? A kid could step up on the platform of the Mother Goose or Buster Brown shoe display and turn on the machine. It apparently showed the bones of your feet in x-ray. My husband played on it when he was little. I can't remember if it was a moving image or a print-out.

And I agree that those ear things are potentially dangerous.

[onesto_hotel]

That is indeed pretty amusing, albeit in a somewhat disturbing way.

So would the eye-camera lack a blind spot due to its lack of a fovea? I guess what I'm trying to figure out is, would it behave more like looking out of someone else's eyes (literally), or would it just be a camera that happened to be mounted in someone's head? Would half of the field of vision be taken up by the guy's nose? (I don't know, that's what seems to happen to me any time I try looking out of one eye at a time, but perhaps my nose is unusually intrusive.)

I think if they ever developed technology that let you film everything that you saw directly by looking at it, they'd probably find a bunch of people willing to remove their own eyeballs for the opportunity.

[bec_87rb]

I bet you're right - no blind spot and also, we would be able to see his nose, because it's just a glass eye with a camera in it. I thought I remembered reading that your nose is mostly see-through because the overlap in the two views gets integrated at the back of your head to seem like one scene. If that's true, there his nose will be, big as life!

[suegypt]

your nose is mostly see-through because the overlap in the two views gets integrated at the back of your head to seem like one scene

I think this is why the fovea is off center laterally to each eye, or at least that occurred to me just now and made sense...