ob Spence does not only love his profession, but now he also lives it. In his eyebrow, the filmmaker carries a camera instead of an eye, so he can film everything from his own perspective. Man and machine - his story reminds a bit of the video game character Deus Ex, a cyborg from the year 2027, which also has an eye camera.
The first glance, he usually immediately falls on the right eye of Rob Spence. Because this is not an ordinary eye, but a combination of the eye prosthesis and camera. A simple eye prosthesis should not be for the filmmaker. His variant glows red, reminds a bit of the movie Terminator. Unlike Terminator, the 44-year-old, who lives in Canada, films his surroundings, so his professional passion has become more than a part of his life.
Spence is a cyborg. Cyborgs allow their bodies to blend with the technology, for example by placing technical devices under the skin. Since Rob Spence's body is only in the eye technology, he calls himself Eyeborg. But why does a person go so far and voluntarily plant a camera in the eye? Spence's story took its beginning in his childhood. It was a shooting accident with nine years on a visit of his grandfather in Ireland, which made his eye functionless. He left his blind eye in 2007, but chose instead of a glass prosthesis a cable eye camera, in order to be able to film his surroundings with it.
He wanted something with more flair and put a camera in his eyebrow. Since then, Rob Spence has only been with a camera.
This is how the eye cam works
The camera is not connected to its body (optic nerve or brain), which is why Rob Spence can not see with her help. The camera can record up to 30 minutes in its eye before recharging the battery. The red light in his eye is an LED light that indicates that the camera is recording.
Its technical eye consists of several components such as a microsender, a small battery, a tiny camera and a magnetic switch that can be used to turn the camera on and off. In addition, the electric engineer Martin Ling has designed a small circuit board which can record the data of the camera and a receiver can transfer the images to a screen. In future, it will also be possible to see a Livestream out of his eye.
Rob Spence is not the only person whose love of technology goes even under the skin.
There are followers around the world who have chips and other devices planted in the body. One of them is Kevin Warwick, deputy vice-chancellor of Conventry University in England. The former professor of cybernetics has implanted several things into his body, such as a microchip in the arm that can open doors and turn on lights. This is not enough for him, however, because he wants to be as complete as possible a cyborg.