Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, lost her eye in a car accident back in 2005, and now keeps a blog chronicling the “monocular life.” She has a prosthetic peeper, but Tanya is a self-described “sci-fi geek,” and, with the approval of her doctor, she’s put out a call for engineers to build her a camera… for her fake eye.

Likening her possible future self (the one with the eye-cam installed) to a cyborg, Tanya reasons that her aesthetic-only eye could become a source of “augmented reality,” and she’s got a list of possible specs up on her blog for would-be engineers to begin with. Just some of the things mentioned for inclusion are: DVR capabilities, MPEG-4 compression, a microSD slot, A/V out, and Bluetooth. In other words, Tanya Vlach is insanely cool. Emphasis on the insanely part.

[via: nydailynews ]

and thanks to Greg for sending this in.