There are quite a few eerie similarities between Rob Spence and Tanya Vlach. For starters, they're both artists, and secondly, they both currently have one prosthetic eye. The real kicker? Each of 'em wants
a camera stuck in there instead. In what we can only hope is (or isn't?) a freakishly growing trend, Mr. Spence has reportedly sought consultation from the University of Toronto's Steve Mann, a self-proclaimed expert in the field of wearable computing and cyborgs. Essentially, Rob is hoping to install a webcam in his eye socket in order to become a so-called "lifecaster." The camera wouldn't actually be wired to his brain, thus his level of vision would remain subpar, but it would make him a living science experiment that would surely prove insightful to an array of others. As of now, it sounds like the road to installation is long, but we get the impression that this guy isn't apt to give up until the proverbial fat lady begins to bellow.
posted December 5th 2008 9:34AM
A true visionary!
1/2 Visionary...
1/2 for self, 1/2 for YOU. WARNING: movies may be jerky in the future.
Not so much as the first lady that had the idea.
Now if the two of them got together...
That could lead to some real interesting uses for DVD's camera angle option that never really got implemented on DVDs.
Let's go for the ear/eye combo!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-487039/Artist-implants-ear-arm.html
"WARNING: movies may be jerky in the future." - No, you gotta have auto-focus and steadycam built in or this is no deal.
Wow..Fisrt time I´ve seen IEye recieving a "Highest Rankend" O_o Someone switched me to another dimension..
Hey Nintendoboy... it's all about the brilliant material he got as a lead... ;-)
Cheers
Someone should make an application that counts the amount of times he checks out a girl; now that would really make him a living science experiment that would surely prove insightful to an array of others.
Proverbial fat ladies don't count though.
Fat chicks count......
"Fat chicks need love too... but they gotta pay!"
That would actually be kinda cool until it came time for some, errrr, 'private' moments....
On a side note, good ol' U of T, my alma mater.
easy, eye patch, arrr!
I'm a hardcore photographer, I feel naked when I don't have my camera with me and iI get upset when I go somewhere and I see the perfect picture, but I don't have my camera to take it. With the way technology is evolving, I'm sure this would be possible with rather high quality results. I would literally give an eye to have a prosthetic camera/eye.
it would be painful to have a 70-200 f2.8 attached to your head
haha, im not talkin a seriously camera like a SLR or somethin like that , but with things getting smaller and smaller, it wouldnt be too hard to atleast put a nice point-and-click camera in there, so i could atleast snap a few shots even if i dont happen to have my good camera on me. sometimes it doesnt matter the camera, its the photographer using it.
Well with the display in a contact lense in sure theyll soon be able to do some sort of reverse for optics......
Seriously though, the lenses could be a lot smaller since a pentaprism and a mirror box is NOT needed(think rangefinder). The problem would be developing a lenses for the spherical retina (roughly 1000mm square) which is larger than a 35mm FF(864mm square). It would be fun to see the raw image of a spherical sensor.
You're right, the photographer always comes first
What happens when blinking while taking the picture?
Seriously if I had one of those all you would see on the web cam feed is zoom shots of T&A...
If you had one of these I'm sure all you would see on the web cam feed is zoom shots of your iPhone...
Male T&A moar liek.
Seriously,
We have in expert in the field of CYBORGS!!??
I'm sure he's a mod/admin on the web's biggest Terminator forum.
The technology is this: 1GB SSD for storing information... Wi-fi is not available everywhere...
Bluetooth for wireless syncing, so that people won't see you rotating your eye to poke a cable in there.
The eye has to be taken out at night to be recharged, unless you want a cable in your eye.
The battery is non-removable so that gaps won't hurt your insides.
A battery costs $100 due to the size, and for it to be large enough, your brain will have to be pushed back about 2 inch to make room...
The eye will, clearly, be removable for charging/software updates. It will be white, and made by Apple for design. The iris will be in the form of an apple someone disliked and threw it away after a bite.
More details to come in summer at WDC '09, with the presentation of a working prototype. Stay tuned, please. The future Big Brother is awaiting eagerly... Do no disappoint.
Why WiFi? He should be thinking 4G LTE for live, always on, global compatibility. This guy better lead some kind of an interesting life (global travel, hot chicks, fights, witness to murders, robberies, drinking, whoring, etc.) If not, the novelty will wear of quick. Oh, and no commercials on that iChannel either (that includes cleaver product placement where you stare at a bottle of Coke a Cola for 2 minutes ;^)...
I'd rather see a much shorter, including special effects version of a week in his life and not every single minute. What if something happens and you are in the bathroom? You can't record to watch later also, since it's continuously. Also all the stupid jokes, loser comments, quiet moments of stupidity would also be... just not interesting. Then the youtube flooded with "I reaaaaly liked this...". Plus it definitely won't be HQ, so please don't propose it as a show.
If you don't live a moment, it just sucks if it's not injected with all kinds of effects...
iEye!
I saw Steve Mann give a lecture at McGill a couple of years ago. He's pretty nuts. He used webcams in his glasses to project his lecture on to the big screen. He has some very interesting ideas.
Ever since I saw the NOVA special "Conception, The Miracle of Life," I've wanted a camera implanted somewhere.
Look forward to a future of us all projecting unfiltered noise at each other that we aren't interested in. Like this comment!
Have you ever used Twitter?
Feed the wire down the eye socket to nasal cavity to esophagus, have cord come out belly. Then you can wear battery and recorder externally.
Anyone ever see the movie Final Cut with Robin Williams? Similiar concept except people have a chip put in their brain at birth and it records their whole lives and the videos are left to family members, etc. Issues break out because people who have it put in at birth aren't told about it and they tend to find out 18-20 years later etc.
Now all his iChannel has to do is be interesting and get ratings or it will go the way of the “Andy Richter Controls the Universe” show ;^(...
And the score is Webcam Eyes 2, Death Ray Eyes 0.
I want death ray eyes..... But just one because then Id just be a maniac......
if he does this... would be be banned from courtrooms??
Is anyone else here concerned about the prospect of people having iEyes?
we are getting another step closer to 1984.
DUH-DUH DUN-DUN-DUH!
DUH-DUH DUN-DUN-DUH!
Duuuuuuhhhhh-duuuhhh-duuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhh...
That was the Terminator 2 theme if you can't read in tune.
The Engadget community has one of those already
Well we dont want an entire army...
Small low power cmos sensor + custom lense + lithium ion button cell battery + densest flash memory chip + wifi for syncing = I think it could be crammed in a spherical shape that small
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
You know, it might prove very useful to have an LED flashlight built into the prosthesis, even as opposed to a camera. I can think of tons of good uses at home and elsewhere for a light built into your head. And figure out a way to make the light follow the movement of the other eye.
And the best part, the light could go on when you have an excellent idea!
I'd want it blink-controlled!
Isn't this one of the new Red One options?
Why is this such an issue?!?
I had a 3mp camera once. It was literally the size of a deck of cards without the box. It ran for a whole day of taking pictures before the battery died. It used a 1GB SD card which amounted to around 300 pictures of my tom-foolery with mah friends at the amusement park.
THIS WAS 5 years ago! All of the components in that could be/are already shrunk down to ridiculous sizes.
You know what he needs? An inductive-charging/wireless syncing eye-patch. Either that, or some kind of cup that he could put it in while he sleeps.