Digital Nightfall on 17/11/2008 at 16:03
Please edit your post to offer some type of explanation as to why you've posted that URL here. I was 5 seconds from deleting your post. :tsktsk: You KNOW how things are with spam.
TheCapedPillager on 17/11/2008 at 16:36
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
You KNOW how things are with spam.
Oops, sorry about that. :o Fixed.
Herr_Garrett on 17/11/2008 at 19:41
That's pretty sick, methinks. I'm all for mechanical eyes - in games. But in real life, seriously?
pavlovscat on 17/11/2008 at 21:04
PFC!! I'd take one if I'd lost one of my own. I'm surprised that spies aren't already using something like this. I'm sure there are people who'd willingly give up a perfectly good eye for one of these.
demagogue on 18/11/2008 at 00:25
Pretty awesome.
I'd prefer cyber-tech in the brain that can upload the retina's image data directly (and maybe add a HUD while it's at it). But this is pretty cool for the time being.
If they can get this technology into a prosthetic eye, maybe they could get it small and unobtrusive enough to someday get it into a real eye. Then we're getting into some leet potential.
Peanuckle on 18/11/2008 at 01:39
Boy, once the technology advances to where they can plug this into your brain, it's gonna sell like... something that sells really well.
Hotcakes?
sNeaksieGarrett on 18/11/2008 at 04:00
Fascinating.
But my first question is
why?
Perhaps I should explain that better... Why does she want to do it? That we don't know for sure.
Second question is
How would you "zoom in" and actually "see" what's being viewed? I guess you'd have to walk around with a little computer screen that shows what your fake eye is looking at? :confused:
demagogue on 18/11/2008 at 04:23
It gives you the ability to keep a video diary of your life, in particular without anybody noticing that they are being videoed (which always changes people's behavior and makes them self-conscious). If the radio works, you could upload the video to a harddrive as you go and back it up every few weeks or so. At the end you have this massive library that's your life, as it happened, unedited.
I suppose someone could do that with rigged glasses. But putting it in a fake eye just makes it that much more attached to you, so it's always there. You don't keep glasses on all the time, but I imagine people with prosthetic eyes keep them in basically all the time, minus the occasional cleaning or something.
sNeaksieGarrett on 18/11/2008 at 04:38
Quote Posted by demagogue
It gives you the ability to keep a video diary of your life, in particular without anybody noticing that they are being videoed (which always changes people's behavior and makes them self-conscious).
Hmm, that's quite a valid argument.... But personally I don't think I could do that, it seems kinda immoral. I was just thinking though, besides the covertness of having a hi tech fake eye, why not just use a camcorder? I mean, it doesn't really seem all that worth it, though I guess who am I to say anything as I still have both eyeballs. Maybe I'd want to do what she is doing if I had one eyeball. *shrugs*
