The Canadian put in a video camera instead of an eye

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Director and producer Rob Spence showed remarkable courage and imagination. He mounted a miniature camera in his right eye socket. The other day, the device was turned on and successfully tested. The new cyborg intends to use an unusual source of video frames in the filming of films.
A resident of Toronto did not inflict bodily harm for his love of art. According to Gizmag, when Rob was nine years old, he seriously injured his right eye as a result of careless handling of the gun.
For a long time, the Canadian wore a blindfold on his eye, and six years ago, surgeons replaced his failed eye with a simple prosthesis, with which he got rid of the black blindfold and could no longer embarrass people with his appearance.
At the same time, Spence had the idea to replace a primitive prosthesis with a tiny video camera. The idea was called the Eyeborg Project (“Ayborg”, as you might guess - a combination of the English words “eye” and “cyborg”).

Micro camera and prosthetic eye simulator (photo gizmag.com, Eyeborg Project).
The director found understanding and support from engineer Kosta Grammatis, inventor Martin Ling, eye prosthetics specialist Phil Bowen, and a number of scientists. Several industrial companies decided to participate both in terms of finance and in terms of development in this outlandish enterprise.

at SpaceX, an avionics engineer (photo gizmag.com, Eyeborg Project).
And recently, after many years of experiments, trials of various prototypes, Rob fulfilled his dream in full. The completed electronic eye was installed in his head, activated and tested in the case (which was officially announced on August 26, 2011).

Rob did not replace his eyes with electronics from a good life, but he became a celebrity. Even before testing the final version of the camera, TIME magazine included the Eyeborg project among the 50 best inventions of 2009 (photo gizmag.com, Eyeborg Project).
Spence himself cannot directly see with his new eye. Unlike a variety of artificial retina designs, the Eyeborg camera does not send signals to the brain.
Instead, the tiny device wirelessly sends a picture to a portable handheld screen. From this device, the signal can already be sent to a computer for recording and editing.
Rob did not replace his eyes with electronics from a good life, but he became a celebrity. Even before testing the final version of the camera, TIME magazine included the Eyeborg project among the 50 best inventions of 2009 (photo gizmag.com, Eyeborg Project).
Spence himself cannot directly see with his new eye. Unlike a variety of artificial retina designs, the Eyeborg camera does not send signals to the brain.

The camera contains a tiny battery and transmitter (photo gizmag.com, Eyeborg Project).
After turning on the eyes, Rob and his colleagues shot a small documentary about the project and tests of innovation (you can see it below, attention - there are not too pleasant shots there, like in the video at the very end of the material).
Among other things, this film advertises the new computer game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Its creator is the Japanese company Square Enix.
This Final Fantasy best-selling game developer hired Spence for a very simple reason: the main character of Human Revolution is a cyborg with a camera in his right eye. How not to take advantage of the appearance in the world of a real such person!
Spence sees his acquisition as an opportunity to take documentary and artistic filming to a new level. He also believes that this development will contribute to the advancement of research in the field of prosthetics.
Someday, doctors will learn how to connect the output wires of such a camera to the optic nerve, just as it was shown in a number of science fiction films. Rob's team intends to work in this direction. With the help of scientists and engineers from various institutes and companies, Canadians will try to predict what awaits us in the near future in this area and whether they are far from implementing the fantasies of directors.

Leonid Popov https://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/a ... 10541.html

 

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