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Eyeborg Project: Video Camera in the Eye
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Eyeborg Project: Video Camera in the Eye

2011 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Filmmaker Rob Spence lost an eye in a childhood accident and, as an adult, had it fitted with a wireless video camera built into a prosthetic shell. The film follows Spence, who calls himself Eyeborg, as he explains why he wanted a working camera where his eye used to be and what it took to get engineers and doctors to build one. Interviews cover the technical hurdles of powering and transmitting from inside an eye socket, the limits of what the camera can actually capture, and the reactions of people who learn what they're looking at when they meet him. Spence frames the project less as a medical fix than as a demonstration of what prosthetics and human augmentation could become, and the camera itself becomes a recurring prop, switched on to show its point of view intercut with footage of Spence describing the process. It's a short, direct look at one man turning a disability into a working piece of hardware.