Comments on: Eye-socket camera films from inside the head

A one-eyed filmmaker invents a camera eye so he can film the world from a very personal perspective.

[mexic0]

I'm not understanding how this project fits the headline, "Eye-socket camera films from inside the head." This equipment clearly films OUTSIDE the head, via a prosthtetic eyeball that makes use of the user's empty eye socket. But this is no more "inside the head" than my bluetooth earpiece, which fits inside my ear. Now, if if the device interacted with brain signals I would think differently.

[dannyaq]

well it is just as much inside the guy's head as your eye is inside your head. it fits in the hole where his eye should be. now if you want to define outside the skull as outside the head ok, but most people would describe your eyes as inside your head even if they protrude outside the skull.

[cyclelogicpress.com]

Apparently you're not seeing eye to eye.

[DarkHawke]

William Gibson must be smiling broadly over this.

[Trini_Bwoi]

But, with a camera in your eye, you can only film on ground level...

[Fil0403]

Amazing; good luck and much success for the project.

[duggerdm]

The sole use for this is surveillance - since it's far from any sort of cyber eye sight replacement or even a contribution. As such, no big deal - we have cameras pretty much mounted everywhere now anyway. Since the camera/eye will not move, anyone with an prosthetic eye will now be suspected of surveillance - making travel that much tougher for people using prosthetic eyes without cameras. This is technology looking for a purpose - and finding little.

[Liebo]

Sometimes technological advances meet a need, and sometimes the uses for a technology arise once it's developed. I'd like to think that if this is successful, it will either find more uses or be the stepping stone to meeting a current need. Maybe this is the first step towards a functional prosthetic that actually interacts with the brain? I honestly don't know. I think it's a little shortsighted and reactionary to can the idea now, though.

[dftz33]

i thought of this idea like a month ago and im freakin 14. idk, but my concept sounds better. great progress in optometry tho

[duggerdm]

Liebo - I understand the differences between pure and applied science. In reality the prime difference is that pure science ignores priority - and consequently is sort of like throwing darts blindfolded in darkened maze. If you want faster development of mechanical/neurological interfaces then development money needs to be prioritized and focused for these purposes. This is simply a common miniaturized camera in side a common prosthetic eye. Nothing more or less and it doesn't advance us a nanometer closer to any really useful applications. Now multiply this kind of useless expenditure of energy, time and money to the millions of projects like this and you can see how counter productive this kind of development is. Actually this not a development effort - it's a hobbyist effort and it shouldn't receive anymore attention than a hobbyist effort.