The first time you might remember meeting 39-year old Rob Spence was back in April of 2009. At that time, he just embarking on his dream of becoming an actual Terminator after a horrendous shooting accident in his youth left him minus a working right eye.
Not one to let a little thing like bullet-face get in the way of tripping everyone out down at the local micro-brewery, Rob finally installed a glowing red LED light in his empty socket instead.
But it was just a placeholder for bigger, better, more cyborgian things. Now Rob has gone one step further and replaced that red LED with fully-functioning video camera eyeball.
“People are going to have the option of having superior arms, superior arms at some point,” mused Rob. “People say no-one would ever cut off their own arm and replace it, but if the technology gets there – and it looks like it will – people will think about it. They might be early adopters.”
And when we said “fully-functioning,” we weren’t kidding. Rob’s eye-cam records everything he sees, able to funnel the ongoing results of his latest drunken dart game to a computer in real-time. It works just like a television set, beaming standard wireless signals to a receiver from the internal camera, battery, and printed circuit board.
See the eye here!
