Grow a new eye

“I am attempting to recreate my eye with the help of a miniature camera implant in my prosthetic artificial eye. The intraocular installation of an eye-cam will substitute for the field of vision of my left eye that I lost in 2005 from a car accident.”
So says Tanya Marie Vlach, who lost her left eye in a car accident. After she received “hundreds of international engineering proposals, support from my  one-eyed community, and thousands of media inquiries.I’ve been plotting new strategies to tell my story, both my personal one and the one of my sci-fi alter ego, into a transmedia platform, which will include: a graphic novel, an experimental documentary, a web series, a game, and a live performance.”
And she wants to build a “bionic camera eye” as a Kickstarter project,  described here. (Also see Grow a new eye by Tanya Vlach.)
Specifications:

• SD at least, 720p HD at best
• MPEG-4 / H.264 Recording
• Built in Wireless Transmitter
• Bluetooth Wireless Method
• Remote Trigger
• Mini A/V out
• Firewire / USB / Mini HDMI
• Optical 3X
• Inductors: (Power Source)

Wish List:

• Wireless
• Sensors that respond to blinking enabling camera to take still photos, zoom, focus, and turn on and off.
• Dilating pupil with change of light.
• Infrared / Ultraviolet
• Geo-tagging
• Facial Recognition
• Water Tight
• Verisimilitude

Sounds like a great project. Thanks to Ehren Wells for the tip!


Grow a new eye from Tanya Vlach on Vimeo.


Original article  by July 11, 2011 by Amara D. Angelica