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Artist Wants to Replace Lost Eyeball With Webcam

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-the-better-to-film-you-with dept.

A one-eyed San Francisco artist, Tanya Vlach, wants to replace her missing eye with a Web cam. There has even been talk of her shooting a reality TV show using the video eye. "There have been all sorts of cyborgs in science fiction for a long time, and I'm sort of a sci-fi geek, with the advancement of technology, I thought, 'Why not?'" said Vlach. I'm a bit perplexed that the obvious things you'd want in a cyborg eye: range finder, infrared/lowlight vision, and a hypno-ray are not discussed in the article.

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  1. Re:That's easy. . . by Yvan256 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I never understood why the borg had the Earth at coordinates 0,0,1. I mean, they didn't even know about humans before Q launched the Enterprise D into Borg space.

    Are we back to the dark ages? The Earth as the center of the Universe?

  2. Re:That's easy. . . by oneTheory · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'd guess that 0,0,0 is Sol. The earth being at 0,0,1 means that 1 unit of measure in this co-ordinate system is the distance from the earth to the sun.

    Still about as earth-centric as it gets.

  3. Re:That's easy. . . by JCSoRocks · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The entire concept of mapping space using coordinates is pretty insane. Everything is moving relative to everything else. Good luck space cartographers!

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