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Eyeborg man puts a camera in his eye to record what he can’t see

By | August 30, 2011, 2:58 PM PDT

Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence turned his prosthetic eye into a video camera.

He lost an eye in a childhood shooting accident when he was nine, but has made the most of it and become a cyborg celebrity of sorts. His custom-made prosthetic eye has a battery-powered wireless video camera. It is part of the Eyeborg Project, which aims to record the world from a view that’s never been seen before.

The wireless video camera rests between two layers of a prosthetic eye. The OmniVision video camera is very tiny, only 3.2MM 328 x 258. When Spence puts the camera in his eye, a magnet is waved in front of it to turn it on. The video footage is then transmitted to a handheld screen.

Kosta Grammastis, a former SpaceX engineer, designed initial prototype. In 2009, the eyeborg camera was named one of the best inventions by Time magazine.

“This third iteration of the eyeborg is leaps and bounds better in terms of video quality and battery life. Previous versions had a shorter battery life and the picture quality was poor,” Grammastis said. “Cramming all that stuff into such a small space was a big challenge, especially on a small budget.”

Spence made a documentary about bionic bodies for the launch of a video game called Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The video game explores a world in which cyborgs rule. But some scenes in the film can make you squeamish (so don’t watch it if you have a weak stomach):

via Eyeborg Project and The Daily Mail

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You Do Not Want An Electronic Device In Your Eye Socket.
Rob Spence put a 3.2 x 328 x 258mm wireless video camera into his prosthetic eye in order to record movies, but it does not enable him to see. Most of the readers who contributed several hundred comments to the article about this on 'Engadget' didn't understand and wrote the technology is "VERY cool!", "This is AWESOME!", "WOW!", "He DOES see through his eye or he wouldn't have invented the damn thing", "I want to replace my biological eye with one", and "It's all great...". There are crude artificial retinas that can stimulate the optical nerves of the blind to perceive the presence of large bright objects but you do not want an electronic device in your eye socket.
In the early 1980s I studied psychology at the Gestalt Institute of Chicago and was a philosophy major at Northwestern University where I also studied psychology, behavioral science, physical chemistry, neuroscience and biomedical engineering. I laughed when I found out Boonsri Dickinson "wanted to stay in school as long as possible so" after graduating from the University Of Florida with a degree in chemical engineering "she attended the University Of Colorado at Boulder" where "she received a master's degree in chemical engineering and immediately moved to New York for its media scene" because I never wanted to be a psychotherapist but I studied subjects that pertained to the Holocaust that is being committed against our sacrificial white population.
There have not been many volunteers to have electronic devices implanted into their eye sockets. I fought Army Major James Winston Watts and his son Army Captain James Winston Watts Jr. when they screwed a transceiver into my skull, on April 21st, 1970, in an operation that I was not even sedated for that was similar to a transorbital lobotomy. During the eighteen months I was at "indian School" at Fort Hood outside Killeen, Texas these two psychiatrists used a hammer to pound a stainless steel ice pick through the brains of thousands of indigenous Terrapin tribespeople, mostly children, including my little brother Kenneth Michael Wiggins who they murdered in front of me on his eighth birthday on September 9th, 1970, after he was raped by a six foot three inch U.S. Army soldier named Douglas Jay Gompert. I know that RFIDs are much smaller now than the ones that are displayed on x-rays taken of my head and those of my one hundred surviving friends. One of the purposes for screwing these transceivers into our skulls was to program us into becoming sleeper agents for our enemies through a technique called psychic driving which includes the subcategory of directed dreaming. Anyway, even though mine has not functioned since I was in high school you can still hear me being interrogated, experimented on and tortured every day as I try to sleep through an intercom system installed against my will in the floors, walls and ceilings of my condominium at 111 W. Maple St. Apartment 2909 in the "Old Town" neighborhood of Chicago by looking up HuntingBear, PaulTerrenceWiggins on the website http://www.inTeLiGator.com . I have never been diagnosed as insane, adjudicated as incompetent or charged with a felony.
In Britain a denier of the Holocaust by mid-twentieth century Germans against Jews is summarily sentenced to ten years in prison; But, the London-based magazine 'Engadget' has banned me from commenting on its website for telling its readers about the Holocaust here, worse than Nazi Block 10 and Japanese Unit 731 combined, called "CiA Project Omniscience, Operation Brainstem" perpetrated against us indigenous Terrapin tribespeople by the united states that the Britts still affectionately call "The Colonies", because Van Buren was the only american president not descended from their beloved King John Lackland Plantagenet who signed the Magna Carta and their puppet-masters benefit from us being their slaves. This is not well known because the Chicago Police "Red Squad" directed by Paul Baraz and consisting of Don Zalinski, Richard Zoolie, Richard Sharp, J.D. Gattinella, Dennis Paulie, Mike Russow, Emma Clayton, Steve Allen, Rich Powles, Jeff Kim, Shannon Clark, Gypsey Tom, Gypsey Gale, Joseph Mariner, Hymie, Leon Pikor, Leon Pikor's sister, Paul Baraz's partner Kevin and Paul Baraz's sister use a technique taught at the Erikson Institute in Chicago called "Social Exclusion" to isolate us in case someone who cares might interfere. My tormentors include FBi "Squad Eight" Special Agent Tom Knear, his son FBI "Squad Eight" Special Agent Andrew Knear, his son FBi "Squad Eight" Special Employee Jason Knear, his grandson FBi "Squad Eight" Special Employee Andrew Knear, FBi "Squad Eight" Special Employee Jesus Gomez, and Rush University Medical Center psychiatrists Daniel E. Levin, Louis Kraus and, the son of Captain James Winston Watts Jr., Dr. Jeffrey David Watts, who lives next
door to me where it is convenient for him to commit psychic rape.
I am ChiefHuntingBear.
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@ ChiefHuntingBear: RANT much??
If you're going to write something THIS long, get your own freakin site. You're an idiot.
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Why am I being attacked by the polluter Ferrari on 'Smart Planet'?
I will never sell Ferrairi the logo that Mr. Luca the Nobleman Of The Marquises Of Montezemelo has begged me to give him a charity rate on, instead of my ironclad 250,000,000.00 Euros per year price tag. I have also refused to sell a logo to Exxon-Mobil that didn't squabble over the cost.
Posted by ChiefHuntingBear
5th Sep 2011
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Again...
What are you talking about???
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14th Sep 2011
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Do you want bionic parts so you can become an assassin, soldier or spy?
Stupidity is being bred in the united states (sic) which lags behind twenty four other countries in average IQ. Autism is proliferating. Bill Gates is paying for a viral "Fundamentalist Vaccine" that attacks the prefrontal cortices that correspond to Freud's Super Ego. The average gamer who can't wait to get a copy of 'Deus Ex: Human Revolution' is so confused about the difference between fantasy and reality that he wants to become an assassin, soldier or spy. And the CiA is torturing indigenous Terrapin tribespeople with RFIDs.
Posted by ChiefHuntingBear
Updated - 15th Sep 2011
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CiA Project Omniscience, Operation Brainstem
Deus Ex means from god. Cyborg is a human with robot parts. I have a transceiver screwed to my skull behind my left eye.
Posted by ChiefHuntingBear
20th Sep 2011
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