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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. I think we need to combine this story by fiordhraoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    with this one, just for maximum creep out factor.

    "I wonder what's going on down the hall?"
    *Fwoomp*

  2. Re:Obvious things by corsec67 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Infrared and rangefinder is good

    I don't know if I would want an infrared seeing eye. The top layers of skin become almost transparent, so any veins near the skin become much more obvious, like in this picture of a model wearing a swimsuit. The vein along the side of her stomach and on her legs are very obvious.

    On the plus side, some dyes are transparent in IR, along with some synthetic cloths, so what would normally be a dyed shirt looks transparent

    (Maybe linking to a few pictures of girls in bikini's is karma-whoring, but they really do illustrate the point I am making. I modified that IR camera for taking pictures of burning stuff, not making models look like zombies.)

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    If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
  3. Think of the DMCA ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    she'll never be admitted into a movie-theatre again !!!

    "im sorry ma'am ... is that a recording device in your eye socket ? "

    BANNED !!!

    1. Re:Think of the DMCA ! by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually it would be funny. She'd have to leave her eye at the counter. And then...

      Some guy - What happened to your eye, lady?
      Tanya Vlach - Movies prices, these days... They cost 10$ and an eye.

  4. see what I see by nategoose · · Score: 5, Funny

    She could have the camera transmit it's images to a screen positioned over her good eye so she could see what was going on.

  5. Here's the blog link; by Eganicus · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://tanyavlach.wordpress.com/