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Canada's filmmaker Rob Spence, who lost his right eye when he was a child, shows a prototype of a prosthetic eye which will be transformed into a video camera, during a conference in Brussels March 5, 2009.REUTERS/Yves Herman
BRUSSELS-A Canadian filmmaker plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society.Rob Spence, 36, who lost an eye in an accident as a teen-ager, said his so-called Project Eyeborg is to have the camera, a battery and a wireless transmitter mounted on a tiny circuit board. www.eyeborgblog.com/
"Originally the whole idea was to do a documentary about surveillance. I thought I would become a sort of super hero...fighting for justice against surveillance," Spence said."In Toronto there are 12,000 cameras. But the strange thing I discovered was that people don't care about the surveillance cameras, they were more concerned about me and my secret camera eye because they feel that is a worse invasion of their privacy."Spence, in Brussels to appear at a media conference, said no part of the camera would be connected to his nerves or brain.He does not intend to create a reality TV show and the camera will be switched off when not needed, he said."I don't want to go into a locker room. I don't want to show the world me going to the bathroom either...I'm not a life-caster and I don't plan to be one," he said.
(Reporting by Bate Felix; Editing by Louise Ireland)
"Originally the whole idea was to do a documentary about surveillance. I thought I would become a sort of super hero...fighting for justice against surveillance," Spence said."In Toronto there are 12,000 cameras. But the strange thing I discovered was that people don't care about the surveillance cameras, they were more concerned about me and my secret camera eye because they feel that is a worse invasion of their privacy."Spence, in Brussels to appear at a media conference, said no part of the camera would be connected to his nerves or brain.He does not intend to create a reality TV show and the camera will be switched off when not needed, he said."I don't want to go into a locker room. I don't want to show the world me going to the bathroom either...I'm not a life-caster and I don't plan to be one," he said.
(Reporting by Bate Felix; Editing by Louise Ireland)
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