Anti-surveillance filmmaker plans eye-socket camera | Industries | Healthcare | Reuters
BRUSSELS, March 5 (Reuters) - A Canadian filmmaker plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society.
Rob Spence, 36, who lost an eye in an accident as a teenager, said his so-called Project Eyeborg is to have the camera, a battery and a wireless transmitter mounted on a tiny circuit board. www.eyeborgblog.com/
…”In Toronto there are 12,000 cameras. But the strange thing I discovered was that people don’t care about the surveillance cameras, they were more concerned about me and my secret camera eye because they feel that is a worse invasion of their privacy.”
Most people have no clue what the future holds for all of us:
Mace ST-137GC Wireless Eye Glasses Camera with 2.4 GHz Transmitter
Mace ST-137GC Wireless Eye Glasses Camera with 2.4 GHz Transmitter
Smaller and smaller….
UPDATE: Here’s a demo of a self-contained eyeglass videocam for $295:
Kinda cool, if you like spying on people.
Get that thing up to ten hours of battery life and storage, and you could record your own eye-view and sound track of your entire life for later viewing and long term storage. We’ll be doing that as a matter of course within a decade anyway.
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Good morning all.
I know this is VERY different, but perhaps some will find it interesting.
I am a total Gadget Geek. I love toys.
My latest is a ball point pen that is also an MP3 player and an audio/video recorder (DVR). It has 4GB of memory and recharges by plugging into a USB port. It takes 6 hours of DVR on a single charge.
It is designed so that when you put it in your shirt pocket, the camera (right above the clip and almost invisible) faces front and all of the operating controls (buttons) are against you body. The video quality is surprisingly good.
I carry it all the time (used it as an MP3 player on the plane yesterday). The headphones plug in to the top of the pen. It writes very well also.
All for less than $50. Hong Komg via Ebay.
DCP.