Sony applies for patent on mechanical eye!

DiMarzio on 4/5/2016 at 15:12

(http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/03/sony-applies-for-patent-on-contact-lens-camera-that-shoots-photos-in-a-blink.html)

The mechanical eye, it's coming! Essentially it would be a contact lens camera, that can take photos with a deliberate blink of an eye, but what caught my interest are the "enhanced features like zoom and image stabilization" :cheeky:

Is Karras probably working for Sony?

EvaUnit02 on 4/5/2016 at 20:22

OMFG, this combined with a hoodie will render your Garrett LARPing costume complete at last!

Yakoob on 5/5/2016 at 17:57

I just heard from a friend who described it as "creepy." I kind of see his point, knowing anyone any time can just take a photo of you with a blink.

Not like it doesn't happen already or isn't pretty easy to do with hidden camera, but having it right in your eye just makes it extra creepy. Tho it's probably just emotional bias from all the horror scifi movies and stories :p

Wasn't there a black mirror episode where people's eyes automatically recorded and stored everything a person saw so they could always review it later?

Queue on 5/5/2016 at 18:19

Creepy or not, why would anyone want the ability to do this?

...and yep, that was a Black Mirror episode...though my favorite is still the pig-fucking.

Nicker on 5/5/2016 at 18:23

That is an excellent episode and strangely prescient in a "previously unrevealed slice of history" sort of way.

[video=youtube;iEUD_mMos28]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEUD_mMos28[/video]

As for the camera eye. P.K. Dick strikes again.

Queue on 5/5/2016 at 18:36

It truly is "my kind of show." I love anthologies like that, and still watch The Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents pretty much every night. I just wish it were on DVD here in the States. As it was, I had to seek the thing out through some slightly nefarious methods just to watch it.

I guess an American version is in the works, which I have some small excitement for. But, I'm not going to get my hopes up. Usually good British shows do not translate to an American version well--just think Coupling and Red Dwarf. In the past the problem has been that, in general, American audiences are either too lame or too fucking vapid; so shows are tailored to suit their slack-jawed tendencies, and are made as banal possible so no one gets upset with the sponsors.

demagogue on 7/5/2016 at 06:47

The novel I'm writing right now has everybody connected through their eye-integrated AR devices, and that Black Mirror episode had some of what I was going for ... except in my version it's much further into the future & this tech has already been a standard feature of everyday life for generations & it does a lot more (half the world they see is an AR overlay that everybody just accepts as part of the real world), to the point that people think about history, society, and reality quite differently--it all just blurs into an eternal all-encompassing here & present--and they're not going to freak out like happened in that episode, at least not for the same reasons.

I liked Black Mirror a lot too, though my perfect show would take a bit wider perspective on things. Not exactly bigger scale. I like the self-contained personal stories, but I'd like to see a bit more showing what the rest of the world or society was like too. That's an opportunity for the American version, but like most TV these days, it can be either really good or really bad.

Azaran on 8/5/2016 at 00:43

Quote Posted by DiMarzio

Is Karras probably working for Sony?

This looks more like the Trickster's work I'm afraid

Quote:

Sony just posted a 666% rise in profit as its turnaround plan takes hold

Fafhrd on 8/5/2016 at 02:10

The fun thing about patents is that you don't actually have to have any sort of working prototype to file them.

We've been hearing about putting LCDs in contacts for years now, and they still aren't close to leaving the lab because: A. It's impossible for the human eye can't focus on a display that close to its lens, and there's not enough space to put in counter-focusing lenses like VR headsets and Google Glass used, and B. there is currently no way to power them that won't give you cancer of the eyeball.

demagogue on 8/5/2016 at 02:31

If we're going full on cyberpunk here, the solution would be artificial retina cells that are powered by the same bloodstream and action potentials powering all neurons and that stimulate the retinal neurons directly. Then have an artificial neural pathway that connects that shit to a processor and receiver somewhere to get the system running and tapped into the cloud.