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Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, lost her eye in a 2005 car accident, and now keeps a blog chronicling the "monocular life." She's got a real-enough looking prosthetic peeper, but Tanya's a self-described "sci-fi geek," and, with the approval of her doctor, she's put out a call for engineers to build her a camera... for her fake eye. \
Likening her possible future self (the one with the eye-cam installed) to a cyborg, Tanya reasons that her aesthetic-only eye could become a source of "augmented reality," and she's got a list of possible specs up on her blog for would-be engineers to begin with. Just some of the things mentioned for inclusion are: DVR capabilities, MPEG-4 compression, a microSD slot, A/V out, and Bluetooth. In other words, Tanya Vlach is insanely cool. Emphasis on the insanely part. [Via Digg]
Likening her possible future self (the one with the eye-cam installed) to a cyborg, Tanya reasons that her aesthetic-only eye could become a source of "augmented reality," and she's got a list of possible specs up on her blog for would-be engineers to begin with. Just some of the things mentioned for inclusion are: DVR capabilities, MPEG-4 compression, a microSD slot, A/V out, and Bluetooth. In other words, Tanya Vlach is insanely cool. Emphasis on the insanely part. [Via Digg]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsAbe LindnerNov 17th 2008 5:22PM
I love it! Don't forget the laser...blue or green would be great!
ChristyNov 17th 2008 9:14PM
Anybody ever wonder, "Did that just happen??" or "Did I just see what I think I saw?" Look no further with DVR capable Go-Go-Gadget-Eyeball! Reality re-played before your very eye!
SeethroughitNov 18th 2008 12:38AM
Sounds like a plausible possiblity, with creative potential. Wouldn't it be interesting to know if the camera sees what the mind/natural eye does in real life.
darkflameNov 18th 2008 4:30AM
More of life-recording then AR (unless she somehow overlays information back on the first eye), but still a very nice idea.
I'm supprised there isnt already a market for userfull body replacement rather then merely cosmetic.
Sure, nothing will ever be better then your natural limb/eye for awhile, but you might as well get something back if you lost something.
JohnNov 30th 2008 8:46AM
Yea, that will look good when she hits 80 or 90. Best looking
fake eye i've seen though, but looks more like wrap-around-sci-fi-eye-brow jewelry to me. Must be alot of extra work to keep clean,
batteries, distractions,etc, but must be fun to record your walls,
ceilling or lover while you sleep for eight hours.
SamDec 18th 2008 3:32PM
umm, your an idiot thats not her, its just a pic, she wants the camera INSIDE her eye