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Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online

Posted by timothy on from the except-for-the-blackout-moments dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this IEEE article, Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence, who calls himself Eyeborg because he replaced his false right eye with a bionic one, is showing off his latest prototype. The new bionic eye contains a battery-powered, wireless video camera that can transmit a low-res feed to a nearby receiver. Now Spence plans to share his 'vision' online, literally. According to the IEEE article, 'soon people will be able to log on to his video feed and view the world through his right eye.'"

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  1. Girls by Bongo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And this guy expects to ever get a date?

    1. Re:Girls by WrongSizeGlass · · 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

  2. Don't Come to the United Police States by linzeal · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

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    An Education is the Font of All Liberty
  3. Being John Malkovich by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Malkovich!!

  4. Being John Malkovich by shikaisi · · 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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  5. Oh hey, it's cyberpunk by Sowelu · · 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!

    1. Re:Oh hey, it's cyberpunk by Yvanhoe · · Score: 2, Interesting

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

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  6. Re:Out of curiosity ... by amanicdroid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also, what happens if he achieves near-light speed? Will we see into the future?

  7. Just wait until he turns on the TV... by gzipped_tar · · 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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    Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
    1. Re:Just wait until he turns on the TV... by maxwell+demon · · 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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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  8. Re:HUGE problem by Hognoxious · · 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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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  9. Re:Out of curiosity ... by snuf23 · · 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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  10. Why only his right eye? by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!

  11. Re:Out of curiosity ... by maxwell+demon · · 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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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  12. Re:Out of curiosity ... by maxwell+demon · · 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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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  13. Typical /. by dominious · · 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?

  14. A webcam, not a bionic eye by mark-t · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

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  15. Re:What a selfish prick! by TheCycoONE · · Score: 2, Informative

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

  16. Bionic? by nurb432 · · 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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