nydailynews.com - 11/21/2008
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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 blind," said Dr. William Danz , whose patient, ...
engadget.com - 11/18/2008
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engadget.com —
Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, lost her
eye in a 2005 car accident, and now keeps...
a blog chronicling the "monocular life." She's got a real-enough looking prosthetic peeper, but Tanya's a self-described "sci-fi geek," and, with the ...
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Blogger Wants To Replace Prosthetic Eye With Webcam
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... also allows her to blink to control its zoom, focus and an on/off switch for when she sees something too obscene to record.“There have been all sorts of cyborgs in science fiction for a long time, and I’m sort of a sci-fi geek,” said Vlach. “With the advancement of technology, I thought, ‘Why not?’” With an eye like that she could blog her daily events and life story through her own eye’s perspective. I hope she leaves it on while in the shower. That’s a webcam blog I’d like to see! Link [ ...
One-Eyed Artist Asks Doctors to Replace Prosthetic With Webcam [Webcams]
Gizmodo —
... So, to translate that last line a bit: Vlach basically said she "sort of" respects people's privacy, but if she were able to get away with filming her date's small ding dong and sell it as an anonymous FPP (first person porn, which is kind of like an FPS, but with a point), she'd do it in the blink of an eye. [New York Daily News] ...
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