A documentary filmmaker will be shooting a new film with a video camera...inside his prosthetic eye! Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence wants to use a camera hidden in his eye to secretly record people for a project about the global spread of surveillance cameras. Spence's real eye was removed three years ago after being damaged in a childhood shooting accident, and now he'll use this handicap as a way to conceal a camera.
Spence said he plans to become a "human surveillance machine" to explore privacy issues and whether people are "sleepwalking into an Orwellian society." Zafer Zamboglu, staff technical product manager at OmniVision (the company that provided the camera) said he thinks that success with the eye camera will accelerate research into using the technology to restore vision to blind people. "We believe there's a good future in the prosthetic eye," he said.-Associated Press
Pretty cool, huh? I'm really interested to see Spence's final project. And speaking of sight, I was at Sunglass Hunt recently and noticed a small card by the register asking customers to takepart and support One Sight an organization that helps people around the world who suffer from poor vision but cannot afford proper eye care. I checked out One Sight and they're doing great things like providing sunglasses ( courtesy of Sunglass Hut) to field workers in Thailand.
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