Monocular San Francisco artist wants webcam installed in her prosthetic eye

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Monocular San Francisco artist wants webcam installed in her prosthetic eye

nydailynews.com - 11/21/2008

San Francisco artist looks to replace lost eyeball with webcam

— nydailynews.com — DAILY NEWS WRITER Updated Monday, November 17th 2008, 6:05 PM A one-eyed San Francisco artist wants to... replace her missing eye with a Web cam - and tech experts say it's possible. "I'd always given thought to using cameras to restore sight to the ... (more) San Francisco artist looks to replace lost eyeball with ...

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Monocular San Francisco artist wants webcam installed in her prosthetic eye
Engadget — ... eye. Likening her possible future self (the one with the eye-cam installed) to a cyborg, Tanya reasons that her aesthetic-only eye could become a source of "augmented reality," and she's got a list of possible specs up on her blog for would-be engineers to begin with. Just some of the things mentioned for inclusion are: DVR capabilities, MPEG-4 compression, a microSD slot, A/V out, and Bluetooth. In other words, Tanya Vlach is insanely cool. Emphasis on the insanely part. [Via Digg] ...

Je veux un oeil bionique
w3sh magazine — ... Vlach, qui a perdu un oeil durant un accident de voiture en 2005 vient de lancer une demande officielle sur son blog aux ingénieurs du monde entier. Avec l’autorisation de ses médecins, elle souhaite porter une prothèse qui fait aussi office de webcam. Assez incroyable comme idée, surtout qu’elle a déja couché des specs sur le papier : support DVR, MPEG-4 compression, miniSD Slot, A/V out, Bluetooth… [Via Digg]