Nov 18 2008Artist Wants Webcam Installed In Eyeball
San Francisco artist Tanya Vlach lost an eye in a car accident several years ago. And now she wants a webcam installed in her prosthetic, because she's a badass.
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.
Tanya,
While a webcam eyeball would be cool, particularly if you spend a significant portion of your day in the women's locker room or staring at your own privates, I believe there are bigger fish to fry -- with a laser eye. PEW PEW!
Yours truly,
The Geekologie Writer
Monocular San Francisco artist wants webcam installed in her prosthetic eye [engadget]
Thanks to Captain Pants and Allegro, who, for the tips, get their choice of a free pegleg or eye patch.
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Reader Comments
1. Pablo - November 18, 2008 2:17 PM
Second!
2. Hannukah Montana - November 18, 2008 2:18 PM
Cool!
Total pwnge
3. Elmo - November 18, 2008 2:20 PM
freaky O_o
4. Atrides - November 18, 2008 2:23 PM
It should be able to glow red like T-1000 or this thing http://www.geekologie.com/2008/10/happy_halloween_a_scary_dancin.php
5. Hunter - November 18, 2008 2:24 PM
Haha, the pic of Seven of Nine is epic right there. Good choice!
6. Alex Tribek - November 18, 2008 2:24 PM
Welcome to Jeopardy! My name is Alex Tribek and were here to play an little game of "What is the best sci-fi series"
A. Star Trek
B. Battlestar Galactica
C. Stargate Atlantis
D. Enterprise
STEVE: What is a faggot!
7. Chan TheJunction - November 18, 2008 2:28 PM
Oh my gosh. The Seven of Nine picture is totally appropriate, does that woman REALLY want to do that?
Next step will be the assimilation of mankind...
8. Thumperchica - November 18, 2008 2:30 PM
Hmm... this is the beginning of the end I fear...
9. Barry (O) - November 18, 2008 2:31 PM
Aren't artists supposed to be starving?
Now this one wants a custom-made eyeball with "DVR capabilities, MPEG-4 compression, a microSD slot, A/V out, and Bluetooth."
Hack. No artist--just another mentally-ill trust fund baby.
10. McGloin - November 18, 2008 2:31 PM
You should have put of a pic of Lt. Uhura in there too.
11. Daisy - November 18, 2008 2:33 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is a lot like the scene in the movie Never Back Down where Baja went as the Borg known as 6 of 9 and Max went as the enterprise's spare tire.
12. Douche McAllister - November 18, 2008 2:38 PM
Spare tire. TIRE TIRE TIRE!
13. Moose Knuckle - November 18, 2008 2:43 PM
Cyborg chicks are FREAKIN HOT!!!! "What's that my mechanized princess? You're forcing me submit to oral sex for scientific purposes? By your command."
pew
14. Uncle Eccoli - November 18, 2008 2:47 PM
Art is dead.
15. weee - November 18, 2008 2:48 PM
WHY HAV LAZER EYEZ WHEN U CAN hAVE MACHINE GUN SIGHT. PEW PEW
16. han Solo - November 18, 2008 3:01 PM
It'll be a HUGE jump forward in technology for POV PORN!!
17. Corion - November 18, 2008 3:13 PM
Olhado from Speaker for The Dead (sequel to Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card) has a pair of metal eyes, one of which has a jack that he can plug into a computer. This sounds an awful lot like that.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Ender%27s_Game_series#People_from_Lusitania
Look for "Lauro Suleiãmo Ribeira von Hesse".
18. Thumperchica - November 18, 2008 3:15 PM
@17 - I didn't know Ender's Game had a sequel! I think I read that book in 6th grade, and I still remember it vividly, great story!
Shit... I am a geek... *shoots self*
19. Douche McAllister - November 18, 2008 3:34 PM
@17
You also forgot about the first Duncan Idaho gohla in Dune: Messiah. He had creepy metal eyes also.
20. pojojuniper - November 18, 2008 3:36 PM
This is just like that time I was abducted by aliens who were driving the President's fully armoured car, and they forced me to wear this apparatus that counts every bite you take, and then they made me make fiber-optic wallpaper in an apartment filled with crystals, I forgot to mention they also put a webcam in my eyeball.
21. dunno - November 18, 2008 3:39 PM
So the question is who put the pic of 7 of 9 up first.
Geekologie or Engadget?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/monocular-san-francisco-artist-wants-webcam-installed-in-her-pro/
22. Mcfeely Smackup - November 18, 2008 3:47 PM
"@17 - I didn't know Ender's Game had a sequel! I think I read that book in 6th grade, and I still remember it vividly, great story!
Shit... I am a geek... *shoots self*
"
Uh, it had THREE sequels, and a whole additional series of 5 books about Bean. You don't read much, do you?
Also, just for the record the 7 of 9 reference is NOT particularly appropriate, as she had no cyborg eyes.
23. Atrides - November 18, 2008 4:01 PM
@22: Word.
It would have made a lot more sense to have depiced Hugh giving Jordi LaForge his prosthetic eyepiece from the groundbreaking S.T. TNG episode "I Borg."
24. Thumperchica - November 18, 2008 4:22 PM
@22 - you douche, just because I don't follow every series of books I read in the 6th grade doesn't mean I don't read. Seriously, WTF is that shit? n/m. you're a f***tard
25. Mike Hawk - November 18, 2008 4:43 PM
Pew Pew in the Eye?
26. SmokingGirl - November 18, 2008 5:28 PM
Pew pewing in the eye is just disrespectful. Now a pew pew necklace is something that two consenting adults can agree on.
27. I`m an idiot - November 18, 2008 6:14 PM
The damn truth:I`m an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!
28. Matuska - November 18, 2008 8:45 PM
WANT.
i would SO put a camera in my eyeball socket if i lost an eye.
29. buzz_clik - November 19, 2008 12:08 AM
@14 - Good. I freakin' hate Everclear.
30. erica - November 19, 2008 3:33 AM
Jeri Ryan?
31. Tina - November 19, 2008 4:36 AM
If she goes through with the fancy eye gadgets, she might as well become a fembot and have bullets shoot out of her jugs.
32. marilliondillion - December 20, 2008 2:45 AM
thats nothing. they`re currently working on a contact lense with microcircuitry installed for soldiers on the battlefield, augmented night vision, orders texted straight into the eyes, etc. after all, the evil computers that secretly run the world need us to see things their way.