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Call to makers: woman wants webcam to replace lost eye
Boing Boing —
... new eyeball. She lost her real one in a car accident a few years ago. I met Tanya at a film festival recently. During our conversation she said she was looking for help in turning her artificial eye into a eye-cam. You know, a mini web cam inside an eyeball. It would capture live video and stream it to a memory somewhere and also perhaps eventually assist her own vision in real time. She confessed that she was not technologically adept enough to hack it on her own.
Eye-Cam Wanted
Someone Please Build This Woman a Webcam Eye [Hacks]
Gizmodo —
... to blinking enabling camera to take still photos, zoom, focus, and turn on and off. * Dilating pupil with change of light. * Infrared / Ultraviolet Tanya's finances are currently tied up in trying to pay off her medical bills, so she cannot fund the development of such a device herself. However, if you think you are up to the task of building a piece of art/medical history, by all means head on over to her website and drop her a line. [One-Eyed via KK via Boing Boing] ...
Call for engineers: help design an eye-mounted camera
Core77 —
... , editor-at-large of Wired Magazine, recently met Ms. Vlach at a film festival, and the two got to talking about the project. The idea she put forth, and which he has begun publicizing , is to embed a small webcam into her ocular cavity, allowing her to "enhance the abilities of [her] prosthesis for an augmented reality." The camera would record what it sees through her iris onto SD mini card, then transmit the recorded video to an external hard drive, where it could presumably be edited, manipulated, screened, and published. Miniature video technology already exists--one ...
Help make a webcam eye
MAKE Magazine —
... This is Tanya Vlach's new eyeball. She lost her real one in a car accident a few years ago. I met Tanya at a film festival recently. During our conversation she said she was looking for help in turning her artificial eye into a eye-cam. You know, a mini web cam inside an eyeball. It would capture live video and stream it to a memory somewhere and also perhaps eventually assist her own vision in real time. She confessed that she was not technologically adept enough to hack it on her own. ...
