Disgusting, wonderful gedenken

[gfish]

This just came up at the grad student Tuesday Tea, and I'm loving the question. Suppose you lost an eye. What kinds of customized fake eyes would you get made to take its place? Myself, I think I'd have an entire briefcase of them. Row upon row, all nestled securely into foam padding cutouts. USB drives, laser pointers, flashlights, creepy glowing ones, digital cameras... the range of possibilities would almost make up for the loss of stereo vision. The only problem is the lack of easy muscle control over it. Otherwise: MP3 player!

Comments

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

You could always blink morse code at it. And a tiny pager vibrator for backchannel.

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Then you'd end up with RSEye.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

Augh

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what I'd get. Remember G'kar's eye? The one he could set down some random place and still see through it from some distance?

heh, heh, heh heh heh.....

[hpapillon.livejournal.com]

:puts holograms in your eye so that everyone keeps staring at you and shifting angles to try and get a better look.

[maellenkleth]

wide-range UV in one eye, at least. Sort of a better version of what I unexpectedly got from having cataract surgery on one side. Blocked tetrachromaticity is a marvellous thing, once unblocked.

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

If I could only have one, definitely flash drive. Keep my PGP keys and other critical data on it. Much less likely to forget my eye than a dinky little drive.

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

Hee, how moon is a harsh mistress.

"Here's the social eye... and this is the anti-social eye..."

[johno.livejournal.com]

Various "costume" eyes. Colors, shapes, words.

Taking Hsifyppah's idea... Mood eyes.

happy, sad, mean, loving, etc, etc...


hypnotic motorized spiral....

[samildanach.livejournal.com]

Silly:
* Hypnotoad.
* Implant a projector-eyeball and rent out ad space as a portable billboard. Alternately, use the projector as a display device for your wearable computer.

Serious:
* I wonder if you could have a camera-eyeball transmit to a high-resolution semitransparent contact lens overlaying the surviving eye. (Hypothesize that you could show a stable image as the lens rotates.) Could the brain be trained to interpret the resulting double image stereographically?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Ignoring the registration issues, no, I really doubt you could ever learn to parse that. However, you could compute the stereo disparity map yourself and highlight things that are closer. You'd need a second camera for that, though, which takes it outside the realm of the single eyeball replacement.

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

LIDAR! :)