the cyborgification of adriel luis pt. 2: copyright your eye-deas

so the big news in weirdoworld today is that there’s a bay area artist who lost one of her eyes, and is proposing that her prosthetic eye include a web cam. HMMMMMM….SOUND FAMILIAR???
okay, i didn’t lose my eye but i’m losing sight in it (which still sucks, BTW), and if i’d have to get surgery to replace my lens, there are definitely several things that i’ve been thinking would be great to install if they were going to be digging around there anyway, such as:
1. nightvision
2. zooming capabilities
3. x-ray vision (for seeing into souls)
the whole installation of a camera thing was less of a request and more of a deeply-pitted fear that the government would use me to survey my friends, which would eventually lead to a weapon-x-style falling out with the world, and me as a 50 year old man with a bad haircut running around the canadian snow in my adamantium skeleton and a loincloth.
but perhaps not everyone has those reservations, so i have noooooooooo problem at all letting this tanya vlach lady test out the beta version of the camera eye before sticking one in my head. i might even get some perks too, because according to her request, she’s also looking to include these in that socket-o-fun:
- DVR
- MPEG-4? Recording
- Built in SD mini Card Slot
- 4 GB SD mini Card
- Mini A/V out
- Firewire / USB drive
- Optical 3X
- Remote trigger
- Bluetooth wireless method
- Inductors: (Firewire/USB, power source)
are you kidding?? the webcam makes sense (even though it’s in a bad-guy-in-iron man sort of way), but what the fuck are you going to do with a USB drive on your eye? what word document will ever be that important that you’ll have to search kinko’s for a hole puncher to gauge your eye out? all i’m asking for is a humble superhuman eye without all the fancy shmancy stuff.
but the reality of the fact is, since tanya and i are both artists, our dingy healthplans (or lack thereof) probably don’t cover operations for cyborg parts. yeah…they didn’t even cover my tooth filling, so i’m pretty sure they won’t cover my robot eye.
the only thing that sucks is that, is it just a coincidence that there are two artists in the bay who are looking for this or is there some crazy demand for it? because if i have to get on a waiting list even for an evil robot eye transplant, our healthcare system is definitely fucked up.


















