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Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online
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.'"
Do you think we can persuade John Malkovich to have one of these bionic eyes fitted and turn fiction into reality?
No left turn unstoned.
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!
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
Also, what happens if he achieves near-light speed? Will we see into the future?
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."
Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
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).
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Why not the left? What are you trying to hide, sir?
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
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 ...
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
And he will hand us a speeding ticket.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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?