Monocular San Francisco artist wants webcam installed in her prosthetic eye

Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, lost her eye in a 2005 car accident, and now keeps a blog chronicling the "monocular life." She's got a real-enough looking prosthetic peeper, but Tanya's a self-described "sci-fi geek," and, with the approval of her doctor, she's put out a call for engineers to build her a camera... for her fake eye. Likening her possible future self (the one with the eye-cam installed) to a cyborg, Tanya reasons that her aesthetic-only eye could become a source of "augmented reality," and she's got a list of possible specs up on her blog for would-be engineers to begin with. Just some of the things mentioned for inclusion are: DVR capabilities, MPEG-4 compression, a microSD slot, A/V out, and Bluetooth. In other words, Tanya Vlach is insanely cool. Emphasis on the insanely part.

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[saurabhsinghvi Posted Nov 18th 2008 12:48AM]

Is the woman in the pic Jeri Ryan ?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005394/

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 18th 2008 9:13AM]

i love it , pop her eye out put it on the nite stand skull fuck her and sell the movie. a true four holer.

[Corvair64 Posted Nov 18th 2008 4:50PM]

So what will happen when she looks at a live feed of her looking at a live feed of her looking at a live feed of her looking at a live feed of her looking at --- AHHH!!! we're all being sucked in!!! AHHH!!! ---

[Imran Posted Nov 18th 2008 5:39PM]

Mmmm 7 of 9...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 18th 2008 6:33PM]

Never mind all that ,great for college so you can record all the prof writes and then bring ot up to your eye for tests if possible ?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 19th 2008 12:52PM]

iBall

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