Cyborg

Filmmaker takes a new look at the world through Eyeborg project

By Paul Best

15:37 April 9, 2009 PDT

After years of wearing a patch to hide his disfigured right eye, damaged as a child in a shooting accident, Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence was forced eventually to replace the eye with a prosthetic one. The camera on Spence’s cell phone, though, gave him a rather novel idea. What if he could build a miniature, wireless video camera into his prosthetic eye?

What followed has become the Eyeborg Project, the progress of which can be now followed online. Read More