WeAreTheKey

This isn't "cutting edge technology" per se, but is IS using existing technology in a new and interesting way. Kinda cool!

Take a one eyed film maker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that's never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project. Rob Spence and Kosta Grammatis are trying to make history by embedding a video camera and a transmitter in a prosthetic eye. That eye is going in Robs eye socket, and will record the world from a perspective that's never been seen before.
...Rob Spence is a filmmaker who lost an eye. Naturally he decided to modify his prosthetic eye by embedding a video camera in it. Rob works as a director and producer in Toronto, Canada and has had his work on Discovery, The CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation), Vision, and Space TV. Currently, he is in working on a documentary about how video and humanity intersect especially with regards to surveillance.



www.eyeborgblog.com

it is amazing alone how far thery have come in prosthetic eyes..

and this idea is both of intruige and an odd feeling...kinda like paranoia..

the concept of talking to some one and not realizing they have a false eye and then to take that aspect and make it a camera.. i am sure the gov't will eat this one up!

Right, that paranoia is kinda the idea, since he's turning the footage into a film about surveillance and using it to sort of wake people up to the fact that in a major city, they're being filmed all the time and are pretty much always being watched.
It IS creepy, and people SHOULD be creeped out. I guess it just takes something so shocking to kinda wake people up to that fact.

A disinformation article about the eyeborg project and Rob Spence stated that the people of Toronto where he was planning on filming were more up in arms about his single eye-camera concept then the 12,00 cameras that are up around the city. I thought that was interesting, not sure if it's just desensitization vs. something new or what would make the 12,000 city controlled camera a lesser evil to a single filmmaker.?

Man, that is amazing, I get mondo freaked out when i stop for a minute when walking or driving around and really look, there are seriously video cameras everywhere, in all shapes and sizes, locations.. what i really want to know is WHO MONITORS THESE THINGS.. life for instance, just the traffic cameras.. I think people are under the impression(i dont know if it is correct- and dont think it is) that the cameras ONLY turn on when some one runs a red light..like it is motion detected or something... I think it helps them come to terms with it, like people make excuses for it, not because they agree with it but to find ways to accept it as a part of every day life..

They also set the stage on the public to prepare you for upcoming survellance tech, like for instance Transfixed and i were talking the other day about facial recognition and he mentioned it is becoming prevalent in cameras, even to the point of having smile and blink recognition.. think about how having all that as a "feature " on you cameras as a society would aide you in becoming less concerned about facial recognition when it is used in such an over abundant manner as that of the survellance cameras everywhere... You wouldnt even care, cause it isnt new anymore...