Rob Spence, a film-maker from Canada, lost his right eye in an accident when he was a teenager. He built a miniature camera that could be fitted inside his false eye. The eye contains a wireless video camera that runs on a tiny three-volt battery. It is not connected to his brain, and has not restored his vision. It contains a wireless transmitter, which allows him to transmit what he is seeing in real time to a computer.
The current model is low resolution, and the transmitter is weak, meaning that Spence has to hold a receiving antenna to his cheek to get a full signal. But a new higher-resolution model, complete with stronger transmitter and a booster on the receiver, is in the works. Spence also has a version with a red LED light in the eye, like the robot from the Terminator films.
The eye was built with the help of Steve Mann, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert in "cyborg" technology.
Rob was commissioned to make a documentary by the makers of a new video game, which is set in the year 2027 and imagines a world in which cyborgs - part human, part machine - are the norm. They asked him to look at how far away from their fictional world we are now. According to Rob, technology is already advanced and the possibilities are endless in the future.
Spence wants to use the camera to record "truer" conversations that would not be possible with a handheld camera because people change. His subjects would only become aware that they were being filmed after the conversation was over. Then he would give them a chance to allow him to use the footage for his documentary.
Rob Spence es un cineasta de documentales de Canada. Spence perdió un ojo en un accidente cuando era niño y hace dos años se le ocurrió la idea de una prótesis ocular con una cámara incrustada, la cual creó con la ayuda del ingeniero Kosta Grammatis
Rob usa la prótesis ocular bautizada “eyeborg” por sus características que hace recordar a la del personaje de la pelicula Terminator. El dispositivo cuenta con una pequeña cámara que permite a Spence grabar todo lo que ve a su alrededor y tambien puede emitir una luz roja. El eyeborg no está ligado a su cerebro y no le ha restaurado su visión, solo lo utiliza para un próximo proyecto cinematográfico que explora la privacidad de las personas.
The current model is low resolution, and the transmitter is weak, meaning that Spence has to hold a receiving antenna to his cheek to get a full signal. But a new higher-resolution model, complete with stronger transmitter and a booster on the receiver, is in the works. Spence also has a version with a red LED light in the eye, like the robot from the Terminator films.
The eye was built with the help of Steve Mann, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert in "cyborg" technology.
Rob was commissioned to make a documentary by the makers of a new video game, which is set in the year 2027 and imagines a world in which cyborgs - part human, part machine - are the norm. They asked him to look at how far away from their fictional world we are now. According to Rob, technology is already advanced and the possibilities are endless in the future.
Spence wants to use the camera to record "truer" conversations that would not be possible with a handheld camera because people change. His subjects would only become aware that they were being filmed after the conversation was over. Then he would give them a chance to allow him to use the footage for his documentary.
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Rob Spence es un cineasta de documentales de Canada. Spence perdió un ojo en un accidente cuando era niño y hace dos años se le ocurrió la idea de una prótesis ocular con una cámara incrustada, la cual creó con la ayuda del ingeniero Kosta Grammatis
Rob usa la prótesis ocular bautizada “eyeborg” por sus características que hace recordar a la del personaje de la pelicula Terminator. El dispositivo cuenta con una pequeña cámara que permite a Spence grabar todo lo que ve a su alrededor y tambien puede emitir una luz roja. El eyeborg no está ligado a su cerebro y no le ha restaurado su visión, solo lo utiliza para un próximo proyecto cinematográfico que explora la privacidad de las personas.
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