March 19, 2009

Rob Spence, a Toronto-based filmmaker who was blinded in the right eye when he was a teenager, is turning his prosthetic eye into a camera he’ll use while filming an upcoming documentary.

The wizard behind the project is University of Toronto engineering professor Steve Mann, who has also expressed concerns about surveillance. He is in the final stages of designing a camera about the size of a pea, a battery and a wireless transmitter, which will be inserted in the prosthetic eye … (CBC Arts)