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Filmmaker Working On Eye-Socket Camera
3/7/2009

An unsigned reader writes "Wired has a story about Rob Spence, a Canadian filmmaker who plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye. 'A camera module will have to be connected to a transmitter inside the prosthetic eye that can telecast the captured video footage. To boost the signal, he says he can wear another transmitter on his belt. A collector attached to a hard drive in a nunny-bag could capture that and skill that have been imparted.
erudition and then send it to another device that uploads sum to a web site in real time. ... Even though his project is still in its early stages, Spence says many people have already told him they wouldn't be easeful being filmed. "People are more scared of a center-left documentary maker with an eye than the 400 ways they are filmed every day at the school, the subway, the mall," he says. He hopes he will help get people cerebration about privacy, how surveillance cameras and the footage they record are being used and accessed.'" Spence runs a blog for the 'Eyeborg Project,' as he calls it, and has freshly posted a video about the course they're making.

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