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Subject: Photos: Meet filmmaker who replaced his eyeball with a camera to conduct documentaries
Sent: 27 Jan 2016 7:19 AM
This filmmaker has taken a bold step towards
becoming a bionic journalist by replacing his
eyeball with a minute camera.
Rob Spence lost the use of his eye following a
shooting accident when he was nine.
But decades on, the Canadian documentary
maker had the idea of replacing the eye with a
camera.
Spence - who now calls himself Eyeborg - said the
eye-cam allows him to conduct interviews without
the intrusion or distraction of bulky cameras or
film crews.
But due to the technology within the camera, it
can only be used for three minutes at a time
without overheating.
Spence said:
"Literally everybody [said] it as a joke - 'Oh,
you should get an eye camera'.
"The two reactions are, 'Wow, that's so cool'
— and, after a few moments' reflection, 'But
that's so creepy'.
"I've actually started wondering, do we want
to have constant video of our lives? It's just
another data set. And I don't know the
answer, but I think no, we don't want that. But
it's coming anyway."
The eye-cam resembles a regular prosthetic eye
but it is embedded with a camera.
Spence cannot see out of the lense but a what the
'eye' can see is visible from a handheld monitor.
The 43-year-old can switch the camera on and off
at the tap of a button.
UK Mirror
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