Eyeborg: Filmmaker wants to install a wireless camera in his eye to document life

The World

In big cities, surveillance cameras are everywhere. But Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence is taking the all-seeing eye concept to a new level, combining reality TV, public journalism and documentary filmmaking. If he can raise the money, he’ll install an always-on wireless video camera into his own prosthetic eye. Listen to Rob explain why.

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