Decimal Lab : Text : 'Eyeborg' filmmaker can record 30 minutes of footage with his Terminator-style prosthetic EYE that glows red and has an embedded video camera

Publication Title

Publication/Creation Date

January 15 2020

Creators/Contributors

Ian Randall (creator)
Rob Spence (contributor)
Next Eye Prosthesis (contributor)
Marcin Jaworski (contributor)
Phil Bowen (contributor)
Martin Ling (contributor)

Description

Rob Spence, 47, went blind in his right eye as a child during a shotgun accident. When the eye was removed in 2008, he decided to replace it with a camera. His fake eyes each contain a tiny circuit board, battery and wireless transmitter. Mr Spence hopes to sell similar prosthetics and create an 'army of Eyeborgs'."

"A previous iteration of the design featured a clear front-facing shell, through which the prosthetic's internal workings can be seen.

The latest models have significant improvements over the early versions, which could only film for around three minutes before the prosthetic would begin to overheat and Mr Spence would have to remove it".

"'I am excited to be partnering with a young ophthalmologist in Poland, Marcin Jaworski, who has a startup based on making prosthetic eyes with a 3D printer,' Mr Spence said.

'The company is called Next Eye Prosthesis and it will provide more exact and more accessible prosthetic eyes for the one-eyed people of the world — cheaper, more realistic, and faster to build,' he added."

HCI Platform

Embeddable

Relation to Body

Related Body Part

Eye

Augments

Seeing, Creating, Watching

Technology Keywords

Prosthetics, Prosthetic Eyes, Bionic Eyes, Circuit Board, Batteries, Wireless Connectivity, Transmitters, Cyborgs, Cameras, Video Cameras, Magnets, 3D Printing

Keywords

Blind And Low Vision, Transhumanism, Science Fiction, Filmmaker

Marketing Keywords

Eyeborg, Terminator, Deus Ex, Next Eye Prosthesis

Source

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7889747/Eyeborg-filmmaker-video-camera-prosthetic-eye-record-30-minutes.html

Related Collections

Becoming Eyeborg: Rob Spence's Journey To Create A Digital Prosthetic Eye (2008-2014)

Date archived

March 2 2020

Last edited

July 5 2021

How to cite this entry

Ian Randall. (January 15 2020). "'Eyeborg' filmmaker can record 30 minutes of footage with his Terminator-style prosthetic EYE that glows red and has an embedded video camera". The Daily Mail. Daily Mail. Fabric of Digital Life. https://fabricofdigitallife.com/Detail/objects/4313

'Eyeborg' filmmaker can record 30 minutes of footage with his Terminator-style prosthetic EYE that glows red and has an embedded video camera