Eye Socket Camera: Rob Spence To Film With His Eyes

Wired:

Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it's a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move.

The eye he's considering replacing is not a working one -- it's a prosthetic eye he's worn for several years. Spence, a 36-year-old Canadian filmmaker, is not content with having one blind eye. He wants a wireless video camera inside his prosthetic, giving him the ability to make movies wherever he is, all the time, just by looking around.

"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?" he asks.

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Comments

[LolaP]

01:20 PM on 12/10/2008

creepy!

[drumz]

12:34 PM on 12/10/2008

"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?"
Too funny

[luzcannon]

11:55 AM on 12/10/2008

What a great way to utilize a "deficit". Bionic filmmaker! Cool, Rob.

[Mort]

03:08 AM on 12/10/2008

I spy with my little eye...

[jdmba]

02:12 AM on 12/10/2008

There have got to be privacy laws violated by that. I don't consent to my likeness being recorded and used by others.

[Sloan48]

02:57 AM on 12/10/2008

The only place you can protest being filmed is in your own home. If you're in public you can be recorded and/or photographed without your consent.

[macohmz]

12:51 AM on 12/10/2008

I guess that's better than it being on his shoe.

[politisophical]

12:50 AM on 12/10/2008

ow man the video on the link is OUT OF CONTROL!!! they ripe a guys eye open and stick a prosthetic eye in it

[HittinItAndQuittinIt]

10:36 PM on 12/09/2008

Wright

[christianmama4change]

09:50 PM on 12/09/2008

So if he goes to the bathroom and accidentally looks at another guy using the urinal??? I don't know if he's married - not sure his wife appreciates him broadcasting her body to the world when they are being intimate. The creepiness factor is too high for me.

[neosoul]

09:36 PM on 12/09/2008

Very interesting stuff…
What are the legal ramifications of something like that?
Hope he factors that into the equation?

[pokemon]

09:08 PM on 12/09/2008

Sounds like something I would do. Hey if it is not a useful eye why not replace it? Besides is would net him some dough, imagine all the freaks that would pay for an online subscription to his life as it unfolds! Attach the signal to a blue-tooth and an open line on a g3 phone and you are in business.

Maybe I could put on one my zipper?

[panurse]

11:48 PM on 12/09/2008

omg- too funny