Uncle_Max
01-23-08, 08:29 AM
Researchers develop eye-implantable camera
Posted Jan 22nd 2008 1:36PM by Nilay Patel
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Wearables
Most of the bionic eye systems we've seen involve clunky glasses-cam headgear, but the implantable camera now being developed at UCLA does it straight Terminator-style and keeps your face unemcumbered. The camera, which researcher Michelle Hauer and her team recently filed a patent for, is small enough to be implanted directly on the eye's lens, and feeds image data to a chip at the back of the eye, where it can either be fed into the optic nerve to aid the blind, or just into a portable hard drive to aid the creepy. Hauer says power will come from on an onboard battery, but we're more interested in the mention of "optical control signals" in the patent application -- and by "interested" we mean "terrified of a zombie android army."
SOURCE: http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/22/researchers-develop-eye-implantable-camera/
I have wanted a video camera in my eye since I was in the 4th grade. How many times have you seen something so funny/unbelievable/awesome that you wished you could see it again or share it with others? It happens to me often. Whenever something like that would happen, I would follow it by yelling to whomever of my friends was nearby, "This is why I need to have a CAMERA in my EYE!" But for the first dozen years, that cry was in vain. Now, it's finally being looked at seriously. I can't wait.
Posted Jan 22nd 2008 1:36PM by Nilay Patel
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Wearables
Most of the bionic eye systems we've seen involve clunky glasses-cam headgear, but the implantable camera now being developed at UCLA does it straight Terminator-style and keeps your face unemcumbered. The camera, which researcher Michelle Hauer and her team recently filed a patent for, is small enough to be implanted directly on the eye's lens, and feeds image data to a chip at the back of the eye, where it can either be fed into the optic nerve to aid the blind, or just into a portable hard drive to aid the creepy. Hauer says power will come from on an onboard battery, but we're more interested in the mention of "optical control signals" in the patent application -- and by "interested" we mean "terrified of a zombie android army."
SOURCE: http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/22/researchers-develop-eye-implantable-camera/
I have wanted a video camera in my eye since I was in the 4th grade. How many times have you seen something so funny/unbelievable/awesome that you wished you could see it again or share it with others? It happens to me often. Whenever something like that would happen, I would follow it by yelling to whomever of my friends was nearby, "This is why I need to have a CAMERA in my EYE!" But for the first dozen years, that cry was in vain. Now, it's finally being looked at seriously. I can't wait.