Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence is prepping a video camera hidden in a prosthetic eyeball for an upcoming documentary he’s making about the prevalence of surveillance cameras. Spence lost his eye in a childhood accident and had it removed a few years ago.
He’ll secretly film people while talking to them and then get their permission to be in his film afterwards in an attempt to tackle privacy and surveillance issues as they pertain to society. The camera itself will be the kind normally used for colonoscopies and it’ll transmit the video wirelessly to a storage device. It’s been developed by OmniVision of Santa Clara, California.
The eyeball camera will be in full swing next month. It’ll be the same color as Spence’s working eye and the filmmaker also believes it’ll make for more natural on-camera interviews.
[via Yahoo!/AP]
This is great! Looks like he’s an android with that one he’s wearing on his lost eye.
Except that it will wiggle regularly… as eyes are prone to do (and we just don’t notice because our brains compensate for it) and everyone watching the documentary will get motion sickness.
Unless he has a steady-cam in that thing… :P
Wow. It’s so cool to see how people really act when they don’t know they are being filmed. I totally prank my friends with the hidden camera I got from brickhousesecurity.com.
Excellent. So far filmmakers, especially documentary filmmakers couldn’t easily film and research what they want. They had to bring their cameras with them and that brings lot of attention.
With this they can go and secretly film wherever they want. And of course the question arises: It will be legal or not?