It may seem that this contraption was taken from the latest film, Terminator Salvation, but it is really a camera that helps director Rob Spence. Spence has created a fully working wireless video camera, so tiny it can be built imperceptibly into his own prosthetic eye and enable him to make the world’s first genuinely first-person documentary.

His invention, dubbed the “Eyeborg”, could also take covert surveillance into uncharted territory. Spence has already had inquiries from media organisations interested in getting footage from “places that normal cameramen can’t go”. He is expecting a call from the CIA any day now.

Spence has used video-camera components that have been carefully adapted from commercially available micro-cameras to create a device that can follow his every eye movement. This prototype of the Eyeborg still clearly shows the working parts inside, but the final version will look no different from the outside from a conventional prosthetic eye.

Spence will not be able to see through the Eyeborg — it isn’t yet possible to connect it to the optic nerve. However, he believes it is only a matter of time before someone makes that step and creates the ultimate bionic eye. “I think the way our kids, or maybe our grandkids, will shock us in the future is by saying, ‘I’m going to take my natural eye out and put a better one in, even though I don’t need to’.”

(Source) Times Online

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