Artist Wants to Replace Lost Eyeball With Webcam 156
A one-eyed San Francisco artist, Tanya Vlach, wants to replace her missing eye with a Web cam. There has even been talk of her shooting a reality TV show using the video eye. "There have been all sorts of cyborgs in science fiction for a long time, and I'm sort of a sci-fi geek, with the advancement of technology, I thought, 'Why not?'" said Vlach. I'm a bit perplexed that the obvious things you'd want in a cyborg eye: range finder, infrared/lowlight vision, and a hypno-ray are not discussed in the article.
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I don't know if I would want an infrared seeing eye. The top layers of skin become almost transparent, so any veins near the skin become much more obvious, like in this picture [flickr.com] of a model wearing a swimsuit. The vein along the side of her stomach and on her legs are very obvious.
On the plus side, some dyes are transparent in IR, along with some synthetic cloths, so what would normally be a dyed shirt [flickr.com] looks transparent [flickr.com]
(Maybe linking to a few pictures of girls in bikini's is karma-whoring, but they really do illustrate the point I am making. I modified that IR camera for taking pictures of burning stuff [flickr.com], not making models look like zombies.)
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But, if she wants to be the guinea pig...go for it.
I suspect my HMO would describe the rig as an unlicensed - untested - modification to the prosthesis, with all the risk of infection and other complications that implies - and they wouldn't want any part of it.