San Francisco artist plans prosthetic eye-cam for creating transmedia art

[kestrell]

Somehow, I failed to hear about this Kickstarter project while it was running but, happily, the artist did meet her goal.
Kickstarter page for
Grow a New Eye by San Francisco artist Tanya Marie Vlach
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/growaneweye/grow-a-new-eye
which describes the technical details and also--be still my little media studies heart--describes her transmedia ambitions for the eye-cam.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

My goodness, a woman after your own heart!

I wonder if you'll be able to build on her work to add hearing aid inputs to your eyes.

[kestrell]

Oh, yes, I was like, "I'm all for a female getting the prosthetic eyes she really wants!"
Re ear implants embedded in eye prosthetics: you really do want the ear devices to be on the sides of your head, as the positioning contributes to the way we pick up sounds in 360º. If anything, I would be prone to going for an ear design which improved hearing, like owl ears, but those would be even larger, and positioned closer to the top of the head, with one ear slightly higher than the other.
Also, I don't want to fall into the trap of the all-in-one device, where if one device has an issue, you lose access to everything until the single broken device is fixed.
Sorry for geeking out on technical details when you probably just intended a casual comment.

[jesse_the_k]

Bring on the geek! I love the details, and learn from them.

Great point about the all-in-one-device — I learn! I Learn!