One-eyed woman wants techno-vision

Easier to pirate movies....

No need to get caught camming the latest release. You just have to sit REALLY STILL for 2 hours, and don't blink.

Go for it.

If you need another tester, I'm ready and willing.

Heh

Surely Captain Cyborg can help here?

Recording? Now when they can connect the video to the occular nerve call me

Hey so she's shooting a bit low IMHO. I would think she would want them to wire it up to her brain so she could have depth perception.

Umm...

Let's just hope she doesn't get a faulty Lithium battery and have it explode in her eye socket.

This story is obviously a hoax, or the woman is completely stupid and loves publicity. I doubt that anyone would want to willingly and consensually insert an object inside their head that could explode.

Well, unless they had been brainwashed by someone of a certain religious background.

Ignorance Abounds.

"Exactly why she wants this is a mystery, as she can still see perfectly well with her other, organic eye."

Spoken like someone with two functional eyes.

"it is implausible to believe she intends for it to be controlled by anything other than a seperate device"

Spoken like someone who has zero experience with modern motorized prosthetics.

Why stop at cameras?

If I were in her position I'd get a range of fake eyeballs made, each with a different function, but so far I can only think of a laser pointer (halloween, parties etc.), a torch to see in the dark, or even a flash drive - can you imagine the reactions of others when you take out your eye and plug it into a USB port?

Prior Art

Just as long as she doesn't look like Herbert Lom (Doppelganger aka Journey to the far side of the sun) or G'Kar

Paris because she doesn't look like G'Kar or Herbert Lom.

Re: Umm...

"I doubt that anyone would want to willingly and consensually insert an object inside their head that could explode.

Well, unless they had been brainwashed by someone of a certain religious background."

Did you hear the one about the Priest & the Choir boy?

In flames shall I burn.

Re: We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.

Wrong reference. Does the lady in question look like ambassador G'kar by any chance?

Some old fashioned espionage ?

It's a modern spin on an old idea, there is an old Sci-fi movie.. "Journey to the far side of the sun" aka "Doppleganger" that has a great opening sequence of a eye spy technology.

Sat here looking at my own digital camera ,small enough to fit in a box of matches or hang from a keyring one has to admit is possible. Going that extra bit and interfacing the electronics to the optic nerve could also be done, as for image quality that's open for debate. Microsurgery has come a long way in repairing severed nerve bundles but this would be a highly experimental procedure, though there are some previous examples for it.

Paris .. because she knows how good a digital camcorder can be

Hmmm...

...did she get the idea after watching Doomsday? If so, good on 'er, as it was about the only good thing to come out of such a pants film.

The number of times...

...I've wished I could replay back exactly what I had recently, or even long ago, seen but didn't have the forethought to record or snap at the time. Oi. I hope this works for her. I'd love a fibre/wireless/storage/etc wetware suite installed in my noggin.

Why she wants it?

Go into changing room, get pictures, sell to web. No outward sign that anything dodgy has been going on at all.

I'm slightly disgusted with myself that this was my first thought...

Paris, 'cause, well...

This reminds me of the old joke...

This reminds me of the old joke about the whore who can give a blow-job and sing a song at the same time. I guess in this case, the customer would find the glass eye in a USB dock instead of a jar of water, I'm not sure if that would be more or less creepy.

Ah, I see

I thought this would be about Sarah Palin!

First step, heh? @AC

"It's the first step towards developing a functional, artificial eye."

I think not (If it's the aim, this is a very stupid attempt)

"obviously interfacing it with the brain/optic nerve is another big step"

Actually the real big step would be to know wtf kind of signal should be sent to the optic nerve (provided said nerve did not degenerate after being severed, which I doubt). By the time we figure that out, I suspect there will be an "off the shelf" solution that could fit in a PFY's large blackhead. And by the time we figure out how to regrow a degenerate optic nerve from scratch (or how to interface a cam directly with the visual cortex), there will probably be an "off the shelf" solution to grow an organic eye from stem cells or something. Not to mention grafts. So if it's supposed to be "a step towards [an] artificial eye", it's stupid. If, as I suspect, it's supposed to be a way to take advantage of one's disability, it's quite clever and amusing.

Oh, great

When cameras became ubiquitous in mobile phones , the phones were barred from some public showers and change areas (at least here in OZ, *especially* in kid-oriented areas).

I can just see a security guard now checking people's eyes for showercams.

Actually...

She probably wants it so she can take tourist snaps in London without being hassled by the pigs or paranoid members of the public. She could use it to take photos in places like shopping centres without some plastic-card rent-a-pig stealing her camera and escorting her off the property.

Problem is, if too many people start going this route the freedom-haters will soon come up with some technology to detect people with cameras in their eyeballs and mikes in their ears. But it'll be good while it lasts...