Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online

Hot date by Swoopy · 2010-06-11 22:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Some people do literally everything to be perceived as a "hot date", don't they?
Of course, the kind of women that this would attract end up showing all that they can online eventually anyway.

Girls by Bongo · 2010-06-11 22:28 · Score: 2, Insightful

And this guy expects to ever get a date?

Re:Girls by Swoopy · 2010-06-11 22:29 · Score: 1

freaky ... you must be operating on the exact same frequency ... what are the odds? (No, please don't tell me)
Re:Girls by Bongo · 2010-06-11 22:38 · Score: 1

After posting I thought, well, actually some kinds of girls will want to be seen online... which is what you said!
Re:Girls by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 22:38 · Score: 0

A chance for some girl to be seen by thousands - just like on the TV/
Re:Girls by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 22:42 · Score: 0

It would probably be a VERY popular porn site... wouldn't have to be live streaming, he could go back and edit out anything that would be identifying. Drunk one-night stands probably wouldn't be watching this, so the chances of him being ID'd... very slim to none. Ultimate POV site.
Re:Girls by WrongSizeGlass · 2010-06-11 22:50 · Score: 4, Funny

Imagine that he's on a hot date ... and he excuses himself to go to the men's room ... and she checks his "live stream" with her smartphone and discovers he's been using his bionic eye to make up for other shortcomings ... the date ends badly
Re:Girls by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-12 00:00 · Score: 0

As long as he doesn't post here he should be okay.
Re:Girls by maxwell+demon · 2010-06-12 00:03 · Score: 1

Even hookers may avoid him now.

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Re:Girls by beakerMeep · 2010-06-12 01:49 · Score: 1

Maybe he just needs another bionic implant!

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Re:Girls by biryokumaru · 2010-06-12 02:10 · Score: 1

Oh god, now I will see a new meaning
Every time something reads "Live and Streaming!"

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Re:Girls by beakerMeep · 2010-06-12 02:48 · Score: 1

3rd eye blind?

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Re:Girls by MacGyver2210 · 2010-06-12 03:01 · Score: 1

If you watch the video, he gets hit on by a reporter and says that reporters are always asking him if he's single. I don't think it's creepy at all, and in fact, I'd love to get baked with this dude, throw a red Terminator LED in there, and go around scaring kids on the street. Hey Spence, how's your Arnold impression?

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Re:Girls by Sir_Lewk · 2010-06-12 04:03 · Score: 1

throw a red Terminator LED in there, and go around scaring kids on the street.
If you watch TFV you'll see that he already has that covered...

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Re:Girls by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-12 04:21 · Score: 0

After posting I thought, well, actually some kinds of girls will want to be seen online... which is what you said!
And if he has full mirrored walls in his bedroom you can see him do his "O" face...
Re:Girls by nanospook · 2010-06-12 06:04 · Score: 1

Hopefully this guy has good taste in women *waggling eyebrows*

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Re:Girls by nacturation · 2010-06-12 08:48 · Score: 1

What's creepy and scary is people who type in monospaced fonts.

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Re:Girls by Firehed · 2010-06-12 10:18 · Score: 0

Now would be a very good time to reevaluate your sig.

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Re:Girls by scottrocket · 2010-06-12 12:22 · Score: 1

he's been using his bionic eye to make up for other shortcomings ... the date ends badly
This is why we need real-time CG(I)...
Re:Girls by nacturation · 2010-06-13 06:44 · Score: 1

What's creepy and scary is people who type in monospaced fonts.
Now would be a very good time to reevaluate your sig.
Boo!

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Re:Girls by ntipouan · 2010-06-13 19:08 · Score: 1

I'd use an eye patch. Just in case !
"Sorry fellas web-cam not available atm"

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bad idea by ascari · 2010-06-11 22:28 · Score: 1

Once the coolness factor wears out after the first week, this will regress into yet another crappy webcam.

Re:bad idea by timeOday · 2010-06-12 04:48 · Score: 1

Really, if this were the same thing but with a webcam taped to a ballcap, it would accomplish almost exactly the same thing (but with better image quality) but nobody would care.

Don't Come to the United Police States by linzeal · 2010-06-11 22:29 · Score: 2, Insightful

The police will rip your eyes out and than charge you with a crime.

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Re:Don't Come to the United Police States by DarkKnightRadick · 2010-06-11 23:46 · Score: 1

Go go police state!

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Re:Don't Come to the United Police States by Chris+Mattern · 2010-06-12 00:02 · Score: 1

Go go Gadget Police State!
Re:Don't Come to the United Police States by anyGould · 2010-06-13 03:05 · Score: 1

I was having that exact same thought: what will the cops do when this sort of thing becomes "standard issue"?
Yes, for right now it's more a toy than anything (although as a filmmaker, I could see some use for this in documentaries.)
But once they figure out how to pass that video back to the user (making it a true replacement eye), the cops are in a sticky situation - yes, it's streaming live. But are they willing to blind a man to prevent it?

HUGE problem by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 22:30 · Score: 0

Implanted (hidden) recording devices of all sorts = HUGE problem.

Everything will become a) recordable and b) storable.

And there goes privacy.

Re:HUGE problem by Swoopy · 2010-06-11 22:30 · Score: 1

you have zero privacy anyway. get over it?
Re:HUGE problem by Hognoxious · 2010-06-11 23:12 · Score: 2, Insightful

Just don't let him in your house. Problem solved.
But don't eat boogers on the bus either. Or scratch your balls when your walking in the park.

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Re:HUGE problem by anyGould · 2010-06-13 03:09 · Score: 1

Only so far as the guy has an actual recording of what he "sees", versus just his memories.
I'd love to have that ability, myself (not enough to gouge out an eye, mind) - the ability to rewind my day and remember where I put the car keys? Priceless.
(For a fictional view on this, try the Hominids/Humans/Hybrids series by Robert Sawyer. Short version for purposes of converstion: everyone has their own personal recording of their life, which leads to near-zero crime, since every witness has a video record of the incident, and any accused can prove their innocence by showing they were somewhere else.)

Being John Malkovich by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 22:30 · Score: 2, Funny

Malkovich!!

Re:Being John Malkovich by MichaelSmith · 2010-06-11 23:07 · Score: 1

Only if he lets me drive.

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Re:Being John Malkovich by cappp · 2010-06-11 23:38 · Score: 1

Doesn't this raise interesting privacy questions? I mean we have a man who is recording everything he sees and doing with that whatever he likes - its like CCTV for the private citizen.

Our technology has shrunk the world – what was once local and limited now has the potential to be broadcast globally in a matter of seconds. Those images and videos can in turn be used for a vast number of purposes – from entertainment to advertisement, from ridicule to prosecution. Doesn’t the advent of certain technologies demand that we reassess that whole “no expectation of privacy in public spaces” thing? Shouldn’t there be a social guarantee of some limited amount of privacy, or at least the right to avoid having my minor local transgressions elevated and exaggerated through cell-phones and digital cameras to a level of state-wide, national, or even international infamy?

Say this guy walks down the street and catches an image of you kissing an attractive young lady. A young lady who also doesn’t happen to be your wife. Back forty years ago it wouldn’t have mattered. He doesn’t know you, you don’t know him. He saw what he saw in public, perhaps there was some discomfort, but that’s where it ended. A few hours later he couldn’t have picked you out in a line-up, and the matter would likely have ended. That’s not the process now. This cam projects those images online. Your wife views the video three hours away, while on her lunch break. Or maybe on TV during an episode of comedic bloopers. Maybe your kids see the stills when they’re doing an image search for funny public pictures. Your religious boss gets included in on the local gossip emails and sees. While it was a reasonable expectation that you’d get caught in public and people would see you with your paramour, it’s hardly reasonable to expect any of the other potential consequences.

I guess what I’m saying is that technology has changed the idea of reasonable expectations – it’s dramatically altered the degree to which public performance extends out into the public consciousness. Get caught with your pants down in Illinois? Expect it to affect your job search in London twenty years from now. That seems crazy.

I see what you did there ... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 22:32 · Score: 0

...oh come on, it had to be said!

Out of curiosity ... by slackarse · 2010-06-11 22:39 · Score: 1, Interesting

If you were recording the bionic eye vision while drinking, would the recording get progressively blurred and distorted the more you drank?
Even if not recording, would what you see be blurred (pixellated even) while drinking, or would you see perfectly?

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by amanicdroid · 2010-06-11 23:02 · Score: 3, Funny

Also, what happens if he achieves near-light speed? Will we see into the future?
Re:Out of curiosity ... by snuf23 · 2010-06-11 23:20 · Score: 4, Informative

It's a wireless camera installed in a false eye. He doesn't see out of that eye with it. It isn't connected to his retina or optic nerve or any other sensory mechanism. If he was drunk it would record exactly what it would record if he was sober. He can't see the feed in real time unless he watches his own video stream (in which case it would be a video stream of him staring at a monitor).

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 23:43 · Score: 0

When we break the light barrier, we meet the one true God.
Picture very related
Re:Out of curiosity ... by maxwell+demon · 2010-06-11 23:55 · Score: 3, Informative

He can't see the feed in real time unless he watches his own video stream (in which case it would be a video stream of him staring at a monitor).
It would be a video stream of a monitor. He would not be seen, except maybe as mirror image on the monitor. Otherwise the only reason we would know that he's watching his own video stream would be that the monitor would itself show that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor ...

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-11 23:59 · Score: 0

It's a wireless camera installed in a false eye. He doesn't see out of that eye with it. It isn't connected to his retina or optic nerve or any other sensory mechanism. If he was drunk it would record exactly what it would record if he was sober. He can't see the feed in real time unless he watches his own video stream (in which case it would be a video stream of him staring at a monitor).
That wasn't the GP's question. The GP was asking if the effects of alcohol on vision are physiological or psychological.
If the blurred vision was because of a chemical change in one's eye, then it would be pretty disorienting. The bionic eye would be giving back a clean signal, while the flesh eye would give back a distorted view.
If it's a psychological change, then everything would be blurred.
I can't answer that, but at least one part of vision which would change would be the eyelids. Your lids would be more closed, and both eyes would take in less light. Also, given the effects of balance on alcohol on balance, the feed would get more wobbly as the bionic commando pounded shots.
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Consuming alcohol can have short-term negative affects on vision. For a low blood alcohol level, visual performance is less affected by the visual changes than by alteration in brain functions [1]. Brain functions can be impaired by alcohol within minutes of consumption since alcohol is absorbed in the blood and the brain is supplied with more blood than other organs.
When the legal blood-alcohol level is reached and surpassed, depth perception and night vision are affected. It becomes impossible to accurately judge how far away objects are when depth perception deteriorates. Vision becomes blurred or you may see double since eye muscles lose their precision causing them to be unable to focus on the same object.
Alcohol affects night vision by keeping the pupils from adapting from darkness to light. The oncoming headlights of a car will cause a drunk driver to be dazzled much more severely than a sober driver. Alcohol consumption also produces tunnel vision and can make night blindness worse [2].

Alcohol affects eye muscles, pupils, etc. So, yes, the bionic eye would give a clear shot while the fleshy eye goes wonky.
Re:Out of curiosity ... by maxwell+demon · 2010-06-12 00:02 · Score: 1

No. Even at near light speed, the future is still, well, in the future.

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by maxwell+demon · 2010-06-12 00:08 · Score: 5, Funny

When we break the light barrier, we meet the one true God.
And he will hand us a speeding ticket.

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by Skeptical1 · 2010-06-12 00:55 · Score: 1

video feedback, kind of fun but he won't see himself.
Re:Out of curiosity ... by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2010-06-12 01:27 · Score: 1

If you were recording the bionic eye vision while drinking . . .
Maybe Lindsay Lohan's judge will order her to wear one of these, if the SCRAM bracelet doesn't work out.
The humor aside, there's already ankle bracelets to monitor house arrest, the SCRAM for alcohol . . . what's up next . . . ?
This guy can turn off his eye whenever he chooses, but could a court order force him to turn it on . . ?
I think all that damn vuvuzela noise is doing something to my brain . . .

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by perryizgr8 · 2010-06-12 02:37 · Score: 1

The bionic eye would be giving back a clean signal, while the flesh eye would give back a distorted view.
it might be a bit disappointing, but the electronic eye is NOT connected to his brain. i could get the same results by taping a small camera in front of my spectacle lens.

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by paiute · 2010-06-12 02:55 · Score: 1

When we break the light barrier, we meet the one true God.
No, when you solve the riddle, you meet the Maker.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19550880/GUT-The-Grand-Unified-Theory-A-oneact-play-with-seven-blackouts

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by Arancaytar · 2010-06-12 03:06 · Score: 1

That'd be really disorienting. Every time he looks at his own stream, he and everyone else watching it would be treated to an infinite recursion.
Re:Out of curiosity ... by Yvan256 · 2010-06-12 05:14 · Score: 1

You owe me two Tylenols.
Re:Out of curiosity ... by LoRdTAW · 2010-06-12 06:15 · Score: 1

Otherwise the only reason we would know that he's watching his own video stream would be that the monitor would itself show that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor ...
That would be possible with Mr. Rental.
Re:Out of curiosity ... by MagusSlurpy · 2010-06-12 09:44 · Score: 1

If he was drunk it would record exactly what it would record if he was sober.
Well, except for an increase in swaying.

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by Renraku · 2010-06-12 09:53 · Score: 1

The vision of the bionic eye will not be affected to you and me, since the signal gets recorded before the signal gets processed by the brain. We don't have the technology to turn brain signals into recordable senses yet anyway. This means that you might see some twitching of the eye, but it won't be blurry when recorded. He, however, will likely see blurred vision if he himself can see through the eye, because the brain's interpretation of signals changes when liquored up.

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by ubrgeek · 2010-06-12 10:46 · Score: 1

Number 1, ahead, warp factor "Whoosh."

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Re:Out of curiosity ... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-13 07:24 · Score: 0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gqMTt3IUg

Being John Malkovich by shikaisi · 2010-06-11 22:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Do you think we can persuade John Malkovich to have one of these bionic eyes fitted and turn fiction into reality?

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Oh hey, it's cyberpunk by Sowelu · 2010-06-11 22:46 · Score: 3, Interesting

Get a few more guys to do this, and wear goggles (or embed something into the electronic image your eye shows you) that displays what your buddies are seeing. Very distracting for the first month or so, but it's a must-have for every up-and-coming Shadowrunning team!

Re:Oh hey, it's cyberpunk by Yvanhoe · 2010-06-12 00:11 · Score: 2, Interesting

I am waiting for people in protest or in copwatching to do that.

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Re:Oh hey, it's cyberpunk by Net_fiend · 2010-06-12 13:53 · Score: 1

Only if he can find a Johnson.

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maybe he's trying to pick up stalker chicks by CrazyJim1 · 2010-06-11 23:04 · Score: 1

Step 1) Get famous with eye stream.
Step 2) Some women start to like you.
Step 3) A few women(one?) will think its funny showing up at all the places you're at.

On the plus side, if you start dating she won't ask annoying questions,"Where have you been all night?"

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Just wait until he turns on the TV... by gzipped_tar · 2010-06-11 23:06 · Score: 5, Funny

As soon as he looks at some copyrighted material, the *AA will find him and gouge out his blood-dripping, cyborg eye.

"Pirates need to die, really."

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Re:Just wait until he turns on the TV... by Zumbs · 2010-06-11 23:36 · Score: 1

Or even worse, goes to the movies ... I wonder if the attendants will try to rip out his bionic eye and accidentally get the biologic eye ... ?

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Re:Just wait until he turns on the TV... by maxwell+demon · 2010-06-11 23:58 · Score: 5, Funny

He needs an eye patch when going to the cinema. In other words, he would have to look like a pirate in order to not be accused to be one. :-)

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Re:Just wait until he turns on the TV... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-12 00:09 · Score: 0

That brings up a good point. I hope this bionic eye has a red "Recording" LED to alert others when it is recording. Either that, or an IR LED so he can hack his eye and turn it into a TV-B-Gone.
Re:Just wait until he turns on the TV... by Yvan256 · 2010-06-12 05:15 · Score: 1

Best comment of the week.
Thanks for the laugh.
Re:Just wait until he turns on the TV... by Yvan256 · 2010-06-12 05:16 · Score: 1

If his bionic eye has a red "recording" LED and it's inside the eye, he better not start saying stuff like "come with me if you want to live".
That would just be... creepier.

Pet dinosaurs by antifoidulus · 2010-06-11 23:31 · Score: 1

Are we sure this guy doesn't have an army of forced perspective dinosaur puppets and his disposal? Sounds like he stole the eye from that big chin dude in Future War.

Bonus points for getting the reference.

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Why only his right eye? by An+Onerous+Coward · 2010-06-11 23:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Why not the left? What are you trying to hide, sir?

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Re:Why only his right eye? by maxwell+demon · 2010-06-12 00:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Maybe because his biological left eye works just fine?

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Re:Why only his right eye? by tonycheese · 2010-06-12 03:00 · Score: 1

Uh... *woos..... oh forget it.
Re:Why only his right eye? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-12 03:10 · Score: 0

He only looks through his left eye when he's getting humped by a German Shepherd.

bluetooth + 4g phone for HD by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-12 00:03 · Score: 0

Now throw in a bluetooth module and your favorite 3g or 4g phone and you got yourself a show.

What a selfish prick! by The+Creator · 2010-06-12 00:09 · Score: 1

Couldn't he sacrifice himself just a little bit more so that we could get 3D!?

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Re:What a selfish prick! by perryizgr8 · 2010-06-12 02:39 · Score: 1

then he wouldn't be able to walk, cause he would become completely blind.

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Re:What a selfish prick! by TheCycoONE · 2010-06-12 04:22 · Score: 2, Informative

... I think the verb you are looking for is 'see' Blind people are quite capable of walking.

This can only end badly by Jawnn · 2010-06-12 00:12 · Score: 1

Sooner or later, the poor guy's going to watch a movie. Movie get's streamed to the world. MPAA gets involved....

DIsclaimer by markdavis · 2010-06-12 00:21 · Score: 1

Not just HIS privacy, but will he wear a sign warning people around him that he is invading other peoples' privacy too? That eye would amount to a hidden camera. Don't know about you, but I wouldn't appreciate being secretly broadcast by someone.

Re:DIsclaimer by zigziggityzoo · 2010-06-12 01:46 · Score: 1

Then maybe you shouldn't go in public. By definition, there is no expectation of privacy in a public place, or a place open to the public. Some states have asinine laws about recording that FORCE privacy in public (which is why we're seeing police prosecute citizens for recording them in the performance of their duties), but most don't.

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Re:DIsclaimer by maxume · 2010-06-12 12:26 · Score: 1

That's such a lazy answer; there is nothing stopping us from responding to brand new technologies by adjusting social mores and laws.
Privacy might not be the the right word to talk about it, but that doesn't mean we can't have some rules about respecting others while in public (I don't think that police are a particularly interesting example, if you want to put on the uniform of authority, you damn well better be willing to let the public watch what you do with it).

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Re:DIsclaimer by markdavis · 2010-06-12 15:16 · Score: 1

1) Just because you are in public does not automatically strip citizens of all expectations of privacy.
2) What makes you think he would use his "eye" only in "public"?
3) An extreme example- so you think it is OK if someone followed you around every step you take out of your residence and record what you do, who you associate with, where you go, and record all this information and make it all publicly, forever?
4) Define what is "public". In my car with him? In a restaurant booth with him? In a public restroom? In an elevator alone or with just him? In my back yard? In my front yard? In my garage with the garage door open?
Not quite so simple, is it?
Re:DIsclaimer by anyGould · 2010-06-13 03:18 · Score: 1

1) Just because you are in public does not automatically strip citizens of all expectations of privacy.
Well, if he can see you with the bionic eye*, then he can see you with his natural one. Thus, he was already seeing you - it's just the method that's changed. (As well as "hard drive" substituting for "memory").

2) What makes you think he would use his "eye" only in "public"?
Again, see (1) - if he's in the room, it's reasonable to expect that he's seeing it. If you don't want him to see it, then kick him out of the room. (Contrast with hidden cameras, where you don't know that someone is watching.)

3) An extreme example- so you think it is OK if someone followed you around every step you take out of your residence and record what you do, who you associate with, where you go, and record all this information and make it all publicly, forever?
Apparently we do - that's what paparazzi do for a living, after all.

4) Define what is "public". In my car with him? In a restaurant booth with him? In a public restroom? In an elevator alone or with just him? In my back yard? In my front yard? In my garage with the garage door open?
I'd define it as "can I control who sees me" - The only one on your list I'd define as private is your back yard (assuming you've put a fence up). Everywhere else, you could be seen by any Joe walking by.
To throw a counter-argument to you, what happens if/when they figure out how to read memories? (i.e. convert human memory to data). Now *everyone* can potentially record everything...
Re:DIsclaimer by markdavis · 2010-06-13 07:05 · Score: 1

>Well, if he can see you with the bionic eye*, then he can see you with his natural one.
And his natural eye doesn't record things verbatim, store it, and transmit it to other people. About people following you around with a camera- at least that is somewhat overt, and can be illegal as a form of harassment.
>To throw a counter-argument to you, what happens if/when they figure out how to read memories?
I shutter to think about it... but at least memories are not stored as exact replicas of the real word. They are interpreted, incomplete, distorted, and often just wrong.

Typical /. by dominious · 2010-06-12 00:33 · Score: 3, Interesting

I've read the comments on the linked article "Film maker working on a bionic eye" and the comments read "fascinating future" "imagination" "great stuff" etc.

Now the comments here read "Bad idea" "Privacy issues" "Police state" etc.

So what the heck do you want?

Re:Typical /. by iamhassi · 2010-06-12 05:07 · Score: 1

"the comments read "fascinating future" "imagination" "great stuff" etc. "

I guess I missed those comments, I saw spooky, porn and banned from theaters.

Seems more like a publicity stunt from a no name film maker... sorry there's no link, I couldn't find him on IMDB, unless he's this Robert Spence who's earned such illustrious titles as "additional assistant production office coordinator" in recent years (is that the assistant to the assistant to the coordinator?)

We all have cellphones, we've all see how teeny-tiny the camera chips can be (head of a pen) and pair that with wifi that fits in a SD card and your favor power source and you're done. Not really newest worthy, certainly not best invention of 2009.

Now if he could actually see with this device that'd be different, that's a bionic eye, but all he did was replace his false eye with a small streaming webcam. That's not a bionic eye anymore than a false arm with a webcam is a bionic arm.

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Re:Typical /. by Yvan256 · 2010-06-12 05:11 · Score: 1

So what the heck do you want?
The answer to life, the universe and everything?
Re:Typical /. by bledri · 2010-06-12 13:07 · Score: 0

The answer to life, the universe and everything?
42.

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Re:Typical /. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-12 13:45 · Score: 0

I think the additional assistant production office coordinator is the guy that runs errands for the guy who runs out for coffee.
Re:Typical /. by plastbox · 2010-06-13 11:09 · Score: 1

Now if he could actually see with this device that'd be different, that's a bionic eye, but all he did was replace his false eye with a small streaming webcam. That's not a bionic eye anymore than a false arm with a webcam is a bionic arm.
First of all, I think it's awesome. Of the thousands upon thousands of people who have eye prosthetics, he is the first who both got the idea and actually got it made.
Second, he could see with this. Read up on Sensory Substitution, perhaps most relevant: the Tongue Display Unit. Currently at 25x25 resolution and a size of 3x3cm, the TDU is an electrode array placed on the tongue used to display information from other modalities through the tactile modality.
Wicab is currently working on higher resolution prototypes but research (going back 50 years) show that as little as 10x10 "taxels" is enough to recognize a familiar face. They are also theorizing about making the array wireless and putting it in a retainer-type mount. Imagine coupling this with the EyeBorg eye for anyone who has lost an eye. The TVSS (Tactile Visual Substitution System) is already working well enough to let users navigate and read signs etc. with a camera mounted on a pair of glasses. Imagine how much more natural the integration would be if the camera was in an eyepiece that looks around in sync with the remaining, working eye!
Also, pure freaggin Terminator awesomeness!
Re:Typical /. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-14 19:52 · Score: 0

Great idea: fascinating issues, police stuff.

CBS by PatPending · 2010-06-12 00:50 · Score: 1

I saw this story on the local CBS news station.

I also learned they are very interested in this.

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Re:CBS by PatPending · 2010-06-12 01:15 · Score: 1

I just discovered the links in my post are no longer valid due to "search session expired."
My apologies.

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Mindblown. by Spit · 2010-06-12 00:58 · Score: 1

What an amazing coincidence, I'm just watching some six million dollar man on TV.

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better not look at the police... by doug141 · 2010-06-12 01:37 · Score: 1

... in the few states that make filming them illegal

iEye by danocorno · 2010-06-12 01:53 · Score: 1

If Apple had a similar product, it might be called the iEye, requiring iSurgery to install.

Re:iEye by PatPending · 2010-06-12 02:00 · Score: 1

If Apple had a similar product, it might be called the iEye, requiring iSurgery to install.
And in just a few days after the iSurgery, one is over the iSore.

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Re:iEye by perryizgr8 · 2010-06-12 02:40 · Score: 1

but to change the battery after a year, you have to go to apple's factory yourself and starving, tired foxconn workers would rip out your eye.

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Most medical equiment is locked down tight. by pizzach · 2010-06-12 02:24 · Score: 1

I would like to hack a mechanical leg to do hydrolic robot walking sounds effects in time with heel and toe strikes. I know all the sensors are on there, but the interface is password protected and uses a non-standard plugin. Though there does appear to be a bluetooth interface.

Most things like this likely require a waver of sorts to get it made and installed. What if this battery explodes?

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Re:Most medical equiment is locked down tight. by Yvan256 · 2010-06-12 05:20 · Score: 1

What if this battery explodes?
You sue Sony?

Hello, J'Kar? by thethibs · 2010-06-12 02:54 · Score: 1

J'Kar? Is that you?

The neatest thing about this eye is that it doesn't have to be in Spence's head. It could be left in some interesting places.

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Stop this.... by SuperDre · 2010-06-12 03:15 · Score: 0

I hope they stop him from doing this.. as this clearly is a hefty privacy invasion.. Some people just think they can put anything on the internet, well if it's only them that's in the image than I say 'do whatever you want', but you will never see him (unless he looks in a mirror) and I wonder if he would tell anybody if he's wearing a camera (especially when he's intimate with a woman (or man, don't know his preference)), I even suspect he certainly WOULDN'T tell so he get's more hits as it's something like 'the Truman show' or some other reality show...

So we need to resurrect the "blink" tag? by tomhudson · 2010-06-12 03:49 · Score: 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink

Women and men do not differ in their rates of spontaneous blinking. Generally, between each blink in intervals of 2-10 seconds; actual rates vary by individual averaging around 10 blinks per minute in a laboratory setting.

Maybe we can use toothpicks to hold his eyelids open like in that Mel Gibson movie .

Interesting concept, however... by anlprb · 2010-06-12 03:52 · Score: 1

"But don't be reading my mind (eye webcam) between four and five. That's Willy's time!" --Willy (Simpsons)

Without a way to selectively shut it off, (no, keeping your eye closed for long periods of time is not an option, it actually get tiring) it would be very inconvenient. Think about when he pays his bills, checks his bank statement, purchases his cocaine, etc... Sure this version is low res, but what about when the resolution gets better? Should he tattoo a warning on his forehead? "This encounter is being recorded for internet entertainment purposes." He can't walk into any government building or concert where photography is prohibited. Interesting, many hospitals technically forbid photography as well, for privacy purposes. Would he have to disclose this or just be really careful where he goes?

I would like to find out how inconvenient this would become to real life.

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Re:Interesting concept, however... by florin · 2010-06-13 05:49 · Score: 1

Without a way to selectively shut it off, (no, keeping your eye closed for long periods of time is not an option, it actually get tiring) it would be very inconvenient.
We got this covered. Why do you think most pirates wear eyepatches?
I reckon it's usually because they're worried that the level of debauchery be unfit for their bionic eye.

A webcam, not a bionic eye by mark-t · 2010-06-12 03:52 · Score: 2, Insightful

A bionic eye would, by my understanding of the notion of bionics, actually help this man see.

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Someone already beat him to it... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-12 06:59 · Score: 0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Um, maybe not by Tablizer · 2010-06-12 07:33 · Score: 1

There are just too many things that can go wrong.

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Bionic? by nurb432 · 2010-06-12 09:30 · Score: 2, Insightful

If he cant see out of it, how is it considered bionic? Shoving a camera in your eye socket is no different then wearing one around your neck really.

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Re:Bionic? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-14 10:23 · Score: 0

If he cant see out of it, how is it considered bionic? Shoving a camera in your eye socket is no different then wearing one around your neck really.
From a purely medical point of view, you are right, but if it looks like a real eye, then its a hidden camera like no other - forget jewlery, glasses, etc 'coz they can all be removed. All he needs now is a bionic USB key and bionic Bluetooth and he'd be the prefect spy - recording stuff without transmitting, so no bug detector would find it, then later on, using bluetooth to download the data..

Re:Twiteye by Anonymous Coward · 2010-06-12 13:06 · Score: 0

Make it Twat-eye, and I'm in...

Tell you what everybody by MillionthMonkey · 2010-06-12 15:21 · Score: 1

I have a hot date with Jennifer Aniston tonight and can offer hi def video feeds from my eye for $9.95!

[clutches eye patch]

Infinite Loop by contemplation1 · 2010-06-14 02:56 · Score: 1

What would happen if he looked at his own feed with his bionic eye?

An infinite loop of images kind of like two mirrors next to each other.

Would his brain explode?

Do us all a favor... by mgierhart · 2010-06-14 04:19 · Score: 0

...and close your eyes during your "personal time", mkay?

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