Tanya Vlach lost her eye following a car accident in 2005 and has been blogging about what it’s like to lose an eye ever since. In her latest post, she has laid out a general challenge to any and all engineers asking for someone to come up with a way for her to implant a webcam in her eye socket instead of the run of the mill prosthetic peeper she’s rocking now. From this article:
Vlach wears a realistic acrylic prosthesis, but she’s issued a challenge to engineers on her blog: build an “eye cam” for her prosthesis that can dilate with changes of light and allow her to blink to control its zoom, focus, and on/off switch. The eye cam could allow her to record her entire life or even shoot a reality TV show from her eye’s perspective. Vlach said she will let inspiration strike once she has the device.
“There are a lot of ideas floating around…nothing too exploitative,” said Vlach. “I don’t want to be a spy and infringe on people’s rights, and at the same time, there are amazing possibilities.”
No word on if there’s any truth to the rumor that Vlach came up with the idea after the first time she caught an episode of SportsCenter in HD.
And I’d be remiss if I didn’t include an impromptu homage to some of my all-time favorite one-eyed characters:
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