{"id":7161,"date":"2016-01-24T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2016-01-24T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T19:12:43","slug":"the-first-eyeteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/24\/the-first-eyeteur\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Eyeteur"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This filmmaker replaced his eyeball with a\u00a0camera<\/h1>\n

By Andrea Morabito<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Rob Spence lost eyesight in right eye from a shotgun accident when he was nine.\u00a0Photo: Brian Zak<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

As a kid, Toronto filmmaker Rob Spence played with a \u201cSix Million Dollar Man\u201d action figure. At 43, he\u2019s turned himself into a real-life version of the bionic hero.<\/p>\n

A shotgun accident at age 9 (he held the gun incorrectly, against his eye, while shooting a pile of cow dung) left him legally blind in one eye. Twenty-six years later, Spence had the eye removed and got the idea to replace it with a camera.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiterally everybody [said] it as a joke \u2014 people doing the surgery say, \u2018Oh, you should get an eye camera.\u2019 The idea is so out-there in pop culture and science fiction,\u201d he tells The Post.<\/p>\n

Spence \u2014 who calls himself the Eyeborg \u2014 is featured in Thursday\u2019s episode of the new Showtime true-life series \u201cDark Net,\u201d which examines the fringes of society where virtual and physical lives collide. In Spence\u2019s case, as a documentarian, his eye-cam gives him the ability to conduct intimate interviews without the intrusion of bulky lenses or camera crews.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the same deal as \u2018Taxicab Confessions\u2019 \u2014 you get amazing footage if you get the release form after you do the interview,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The technology raises ethical questions, however \u2014 just as it did with Google Glass, which failed to gain traction due to privacy and safety concerns about the ability to record anyone and everyone within eyesight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two reactions are, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s so cool\u2019 \u2014 and, after a few moments\u2019 reflection, \u2018but that\u2019s so creepy,\u2019\u2009\u201d Spence says. \u201cI\u2019ve actually started wondering, do we want to have constant video of our lives? It\u2019s just another data set. And I don\u2019t know the answer, but I think no, we don\u2019t want that. But it\u2019s coming anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at NYPost.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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