Apr 21 2009Man Wants Camera Installed In Prosthetic Eye, Temporarily Settles For Terminator Eye
Rob Spence has had eye problems since a shooting accident at 13. Now 36, Rob had the eye removed three years ago and decided he wants a video camera in it's place. Only problem: getting a video camera in its place.
Thus far, they've built devices that create wireless NTSC signals--the sort of standard wireless signal a television uses--and are now working on getting this to work in sync with a miniature camera and a battery, all attached to a printed circuit board, all of which has to fit inside a prosthetic eye.
So in the meantime Rob sports the Terminator eye to drum up interest in the project and try to score some funding. Good luck, Rob. And by good luck I mean I won't hesitate to go John Connor on that ass if I have to.
Hit the jump for one more shot and a link to the superlong article.
Working-Class Cyborg [bmenews]
Thanks to Leanna, who once Superpoked my eye out on Facebook. True story.
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Reader Comments
1. bartleby - April 21, 2009 3:00 PM
FIRST
2. isi - April 21, 2009 3:00 PM
first
3. James B. Webb - April 21, 2009 3:03 PM
Third.
Some Terminator movie trivia you might enjoy: http://brainrageblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/original-terminator.html
4. GTO--Josh - April 21, 2009 3:09 PM
cool
5. The F'n Jem'Hadar - April 21, 2009 3:14 PM
Old news is old
6. Frank B. - April 21, 2009 3:17 PM
So until he gets a camera, he's going to look like the terminator. Win.
Oh, and GW must love this guy. He can spy on the enemy while they plot in their robot lairs. "Yeah, I'm one of you. See? I have the eye!"
7. MacMaster - April 21, 2009 3:18 PM
What the heck?Tthe only thing he is going to drum up is Sarah Conner's cache of grenade launchers and shotguns.
8. Angel Mass - April 21, 2009 3:25 PM
NASA Former Astronauts says we are not alone in the Universe:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/20/ufo.conference/index.html
9. TetterkeT - April 21, 2009 3:25 PM
It's a shame the "accident" wasn't fatal.
10. Ollie Williams - April 21, 2009 3:27 PM
He looks like a wanker.
11. Hannukah Montana - April 21, 2009 3:27 PM
I'm gonna get me some of that and have my entire skull plated with titanium and then purposely scrape my cheeks in public to show off my metal cheekbones and metal jaws and my illuminating red eye. Asta la vista bitches!
12. Frank B. - April 21, 2009 3:31 PM
@ Ollie
A wanker, yeah. But a potentially USEFUL one.
13. Watch - April 21, 2009 3:33 PM
niiice! i feel bad he lost his eye. perhaps placental or adult stem cell treatments might be able to grow him a new eye. There's a navy seal as well that lost his eye in a firefight in iraq
14. Pew³ - April 21, 2009 3:36 PM
I'll be back.
15. 1st, 2nd, 3rd Police - April 21, 2009 3:37 PM
@2 FAIL
16. darksaturn7 - April 21, 2009 3:40 PM
Cool idea on paper, not so cool in execution. I dunno if I could keep from not laughing at this guy XD
~DS
17. bojangles - April 21, 2009 3:51 PM
phurst
18. ROCK - April 21, 2009 4:11 PM
18!!! OMG im soo cooool!!!!!!!!!!
19. Leanna - April 21, 2009 4:46 PM
My fave part of the article is:
"What about what we saw earlier in the evening, though? Rob sporting a glowing red light in his eye? Does that count for anything?
“Oh,” he says, taking a draw off his scotch, “that’s just bullshit for press like you.” "
20. Annearchist - April 21, 2009 7:58 PM
Now the threat of "You'll shoot your eye out!" will just get kids all excited about getting a replacement cyborg eye to impress their friends.
21. Milkman - April 21, 2009 8:25 PM
Fat dude with red eye... news at 11
22. wow power leveling - April 21, 2009 8:27 PM
asd
23. Eddy - April 21, 2009 9:45 PM
Man, that would be wicked for filming porn. I mean um what.
Seriously though. Porn seems to be what pushes all new technology. VHS was decided because of porn. The High Def war was won by porn. He should contact a porn studio.
24. Larrythefatcat - April 22, 2009 2:38 AM
@OP
Just so you know, Connor doesn't have an 'e'... I figured since you're posting on a site with the word 'geek' in it you might want to know that. ;)
25. Graf Zeppelin - April 22, 2009 3:40 AM
But... he already sees... why can't he compliment his left eye with something cooler like IR vision or something...
26. eating the bean - April 22, 2009 5:45 AM
goodluck picking up a woman at the bar. it would pain her to look at you in the eye. it might work for high school tho. pedophilia eye in stores now
27. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 22, 2009 7:59 AM
Um, could you imagine trying to hold a conversation with the glowing red eye staring at you? I'd probably go postal on it...
28. POOPY BUTT - April 22, 2009 10:17 AM
I LIKE POOPY BUTTS!@!!!!
29. kelehendros - April 22, 2009 11:09 AM
people are JUST now wanting cyber eyes? man the rest of humanity needs to catch up to the rest of us im waititng for weaponized cyberlimbs still :*(
30. ya know - April 23, 2009 2:10 PM
All he needs is a metal faceplate for his left side and he'll be Kano from Mortal Kombat.
31. 3.14chan - June 19, 2009 4:54 PM
Why don't he just use a SolidEye a eyepatch camera would look and work much better.
32. Ajlouny - July 4, 2009 5:11 PM
I just don't understand why they can't make it look like a normal eye with all it's cool gadgets on it. It just looks freaky right now.