Take a one eyed film maker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that's never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project. Rob Spence, Kosta Grammatis and a team of others are trying to make history by embedding a video camera and a transmitter in a prosthetic eye. That eye is going in Robs eye socket, and will record the world from a perspective that's never been seen before.

This clip chronicles the first attempt at creating the eye-- a two week hiatus of getting parts, assembling, and testing. Obviously we need a lab, and a bit more time. Can someone donate an oscilloscope?

More info: http://eyeborgproject.com

This is the sort of stuff Sci-Fi movies are made of and I'm a natural fan of these sorts of things. For example, growing up on TV shows like Star Trek (the one with the original cast with Captain Kirk), I was seduced by the idea of speaking to someone on a communications device wirelessly attached to your wrist or a piece of clothing. I loved the idea of just tapping your chest and you could instantly speak to someone. When the then Mercury One2One brought out the Motorola M400 as part of their deal, I was just old enough to buy a mobile phone and yes, I used my savings to buy one.

This in-eye camera thing just reminds me of Arnie in The Terminator and I toyed with the idea of what it'll be like to give up one of my eyes for an upgraded version of Spence's camera if it came complete with x1000 zoom or something ridiculous like that and of course, it has to have a connection to my brain so I could actually process what it is my prosthetic camera eye could. It would also have to come with night-vision. I'd call this upgrade Eye-Borg II.

I feel like I'm opting to become Dude-Droid or Droid-Man or something to that effect.

Okay I'm lying, I wouldn't give up my eye but should I be in Spence's situation, where I had lost complete sight in one of my eyes and it was detoriorating fast and an opportunity came to replace it with Eye-Borg II, I think I'd probably go for it. If I had lost complete vision in both eyes, and the images could somehow be transmitted to my brain so I could discern where objects were or be able to see what the camera sees, I think I would go for it. What would I have to lose?

What do you think?

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