Filmmaker Working On Eye-Socket Camera 114
An anonymous reader writes "Wired has a story about Rob Spence, a Canadian filmmaker who plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye. 'A camera module will have to be connected to a transmitter inside the prosthetic eye that can broadcast the captured video footage. To boost the signal, he says he can wear another transmitter on his belt. A receiver attached to a hard drive in a backpack could capture that information and then send it to another device that uploads everything to a web site in real time. ... Even though his project is still in its early stages, Spence says many people have already told him they wouldn't be comfortable being filmed. "People are more scared of a center-left documentary maker with an eye than the 400 ways they are filmed every day at the school, the subway, the mall," he says. He hopes he will help get people thinking about privacy, how surveillance cameras and the footage they record are being used and accessed.'"
Spence runs a blog for the 'Eyeborg Project,' as he calls it, and has recently posted a video about the progress they're making.
Maybe because... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:pirate ! (Score:4, Funny)
It won't get him banned, but if he doesn't implement DRM, then the movie theater will aim lasers at his prosthetic eye for the duration of the movie so he can't get a good recording.
Re:pirate ! Socket to me! (Score:4, Funny)
So, if he captures a crime in progress, the criminals (if they recognize him) can hurl all sorts of puns his way:
Eye of the beholder
Socket too me
An eye for an eye...
See, if you had that camera in your ass or fannypack, hindsight would be 20/20
Depending on the focal length he uses, if he fixates on breasts, will he be a living boob tube? Titty-gazing could, like, oh my god... soooo tubular...
If he sees two rogue law enforcement officers beating on a civilian, he could sing "EYE SHOT THE SHERRIF, but EYE didn't SHOOT THE DEPUTY..."
There may be a new law: DCMA
"Don't Capture Me, Aye!" (especially since he's Canadian...)
If he sees a SUUUUUPER ugly person, they may crack his lens.
If they put smoke and mirrors in his path, he could be blinded with science.
If he's in a room with flash-bangs and smoke grenades, he'll be "bedazzled and frazzled"
If his good eye goes out, and he's broadsided, it could be said he was blind-sided...
Would he go crazy if swimming with fisheye lens goggles?
I suppose much of this assumes he as a neuro-optical data link.... and can process the imagery. Hopefully he won't be a cross between Geordi (super barrettes) La Forge and Saul (Demon Eyes) Tigh...
But, if he's visious, and lays eyes on you, you'd be caught in the eye of the tiger...
Yeh, i'm on a ROLL (but not a film roll)... LOL!
Re:Back to the future (Score:5, Funny)
a bastard-child of Twitter and YouTube
YouTwit? Twitube?
Re:I already do something similar. (Score:4, Funny)
I said I RECORD everything I see.
I didn't say I have access to it later!
I'm getting the sneaking suspicion my wife does though.
Missed opportunity (Score:5, Funny)
Eye think otherwise (Score:5, Funny)
Center-left documentary maker (Score:2, Funny)