Meet filmmaker who replaced his eyeball with a camera to conduct documentaries

This filmmaker has taken a bold step towards
becoming a bionic journalist by replacing his eyeball
with a minute camera.

Rob Spence lost the use of his eye following a
shooting accident when he was nine.
But decades on, the Canadian documentary maker
had the idea of replacing the eye with a camera.
Spence - who now calls himself Eyeborg - said the
eye-cam allows him to conduct interviews without
the intrusion or distraction of bulky cameras or film
crews.

But due to the technology within the camera, it can
only be used for three minutes at a time without
overheating.

Spence said:
"Literally everybody [said] it as a joke - ‘Oh,
you should get an eye camera'.
"The two reactions are, ‘Wow, that’s so cool’ —
and, after a few moments’ reflection, ‘But
that’s so creepy'.


“I’ve actually started wondering, do we want to
have constant video of our lives? It’s just
another data set. And I don’t know the answer,
but I think no, we don’t want that. But it’s
coming anyway."

The eye-cam resembles a regular prosthetic eye but
it is embedded with a camera.

Spence cannot see out of the lense but a what the
'eye' can see is visible from a handheld monitor.
The 43-year-old can switch the camera on and off at
the tap of a button.