Photos: Meet filmmaker who replaced his eyeball with a camera to conduct documentaries

This filmmaker has taken a bold step towards
becoming a bionic journalist by replacing his
eyeball with a minute camera.
Rob Spence lost the use of his eye following a
shooting accident when he was nine.
But decades on, the Canadian documentary maker
had the idea of replacing the eye with a camera.
Spence - who now calls himself Eyeborg - said
the eye-cam allows him to conduct interviews
without the intrusion or distraction of bulky
cameras or film crews.
But due to the technology within the camera, it
can only be used for three minutes at a time
without overheating.
Spence said:
"Literally everybody [said] it as a joke - ‘Oh,
you should get an eye camera'.
"The two reactions are, ‘Wow, that’s so
cool’ — and, after a few moments’
reflection, ‘But that’s so creepy'.
“I’ve actually started wondering, do we
want to have constant video of our lives?
It’s just another data set. And I don’t know
the answer, but I think no, we don’t want
that. But it’s coming anyway."
The eye-cam resembles a regular prosthetic eye
but it is embedded with a camera.
Spence cannot see out of the lense but a what
the 'eye' can see is visible from a handheld
monitor.
The 43-year-old can switch the camera on and off
at the tap of a button.