Filmmaker Working On Eye-Socket Camera

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.

Re:babylon 5

[Daffy Duck]

Predated by a couple of decades in "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun". Herbert Lom has a spy camera in his fake eye to elude a full-body security search.

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[heretic108]

Or they'll only let him in if he's wearing a certified eye patch, arrr arrr!

Re:Back to the future

[MadnessASAP]

You can definetly move a prosthetic eye, focus is a different matter but I suspect it would be one of the easier things to do given that it's just a matter of finding which nerve went too the muscle.

People who claim to be "center-left"

[Anonymous Coward]

are usually somewhere to the left of Fidel Castro.

Re:Back to the future

[Anonymous Coward]

That's not impossible now. You could record all that you see with current technology. A wearable camera, or even eyeglasses with a built in camera could record everything. (these already exist) and then you'd just dump the recordings to a hard drive or other storage medium on a regular basis, perhaps daily.

You can get a one terabyte hard drive for under $100. A couple of those could record an entire year of video at reasonable SDTV quality using mpeg4-avc. Broadcast quality SDTV is not too bad at all. If you wanted to do HDTV or multiple camera angles, you'd need more drives, but it's not as if that is necessarily break-the-bank expensive these days. A couple hundred dollars worth of hard drive storage per year is doable. Of course, prices will only go down.