eyeborg update

Posted by on March 21st, 2009 in body mods, cyborging, surveillance

That’s the current iteration of Rob Spence’s project to replace his lost eye with a video camera.

thanks to cnawan for the tip-off!

Previously:

Update: You can track the progress of Eyeborg on twitter.

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7 Responses to “eyeborg update”

  1. Sparky Santos - March 21st, 2009 at 11:58 am

    Interesting. There’s nothing cosmetically pleasing about the prototype yet.

  2. KBlack - March 21st, 2009 at 4:27 pm

    Dude, wires and microchips ARE cosmetically pleasing to a grinder ;)

  3. Zenithbd - March 21st, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    Aesthetics aside, that eye looks bloody painful to actually use – and is that a wire or a cut on his lower eyelid – geez

  4. Grrrrm - March 22nd, 2009 at 8:12 am

    what lower eyelid?

    Personally i’m liking this, think of it: no more lost memories from the night before so you can see all your embarrasing drunken moments in every detail.

    Hmm. On second thoughts..

  5. KBlack - March 22nd, 2009 at 9:12 am

    @Grrrrm: I can figure a a few new porn trends being born.

  6. Grrrrm - March 23rd, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    On the issue of cosmetically pleasing it does bring up one issue – in it’s current itteration you can see that it is blatantly not an eye and in fact some kind of home brew recording device.

    I like that for one reason: You know there is a camera being pointed at you. If it were well hidden in a more realistic eye then you won’t necessarily know.

    Now there’s obviously pros and cons to this but in an increasingly surveillance orientated culture (such as the UK, my wonderful home) I’d like to see that i am in a situation where it’s possible for my actions to be recorded. Not because i do bad things (i don’t, at least not knowingly) or have any reason to currently fear the idiots in government at the moment. I just think that if someone has a camera pointed at them, they have a right to know. In it’s current form you can clearly see it’s not a real eye and it’s your call as to how you want to handle the situation from there.

    That and i always act a berk in front of a camera. Especially if there’s a beer or twelve in me. No one wants that posted on youtube, believe me.

  7. KBlack - March 26th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    Especially with all these stories in the media telling the tales of employees who have lost their job because of the behavior they had at a party or because they said something bad about the corp and were unlucky enough to be caught on film/picture and uploaded to youtube/facebook.

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