Reality TV from the Surface of Your Eye
Claudia Cukrov
Artist Tanya Vlach has put out the challenge for budding engineers to build her a web-cam enabled prosthetic eyeball. The trans-disciplinary artist who lost her eye in a 2005 car accident is planning to turn a once unfortunate situation into a life-long art project. Vlach wishes to use the bionic eye to record daily experiences and contribute towards a possible reality TV program. Vlach has requested the prosthesis be able to take still photos and video, use 3X optical zoom, be Bluetooth enabled and hold space for a 4GB SD card.
On her blog the San-Francisco-based artist writes:
I am attempting to recreate my eye with the help of a miniature camera implant in my prosthetic / artificial eye. The intraocular installation of an eye-cam will substitute for the field of vision of my left eye that I lost in 2005 from a car accident. While my prosthetic is an excellent aesthetic replacement, I am interested in capitalizing on the current advancement of technology to enhance the abilities of my prosthesis for an augmented reality.
Emails have been flooding in from engineers offering their assistance, and with the current spy-cam technology out there, Vlach’s prosthesis is not far off.
[via Sydney Morning Herald]
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