Artist Tanya Vlach Wants to Replace Eye with Webcam

“A one-eyed San Francisco artist wants to replace her missing eye with a Web cam – and tech experts say it’s possible.

Vlach, who lost her eye in a 2005 car accident, wears a realistic acrylic prosthesis, but she’s issued a challenge to engineers on her blog: build an ‘eye cam’ for her prosthesis that can dilate with changes of light and allow her to blink to control its zoom, focus, and on/off switch.

‘There have been all sorts of cyborgs in science fiction for a long time, and I’m sort of a sci-fi geek,’ said Vlach, 35. ‘With the advancement of technology, I thought, “Why not?”‘

The eye cam could allow her to record her entire life or even shoot a reality TV show from her eye’s perspective. Vlach said she will let inspiration strike once she has the device.”