Rob Spence is Eyeborg

Talk about laying the primitive ground work yourself, Rob Spence lost an eye in a gun accident and went on to inspire a small group of engineers to build him a prosthetic eye with a wireless video camera in it.

This experience led Rob to make a documentary film about the human "cyborg people" that are living today. Check out the Eyeborg blog for clips about the cyborg people Rob interviews for the film. A blind man, named Miika Terho, is participating in a research program that has connected a video signal to his optic nerve allowing him to see objects like a banana. eyeborgblog.com

Hello World,

This is my first post on a new blog I call the Cyborg Countdown Clock. Much like the concerned scientists of the cold war era I have created a 12 hour countdown I'll use to indicate how far humanity is along the path to cyborg domination.

The original doomsday clock created in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

To support the countdown indication I will post my thought about a wide variety of articles I feel contribute to the eventual cyborg revolution. Sometimes the relevant links may not be so obvious, like how a new nano-ocular device can improve the eyesight of folks with sever cataracts, but I hope to expand on the idea that today's new discoveries are the groundwork for tomorrows cyborg prototype.

Some may think we are already half way there with smart phones attached to our heads in environments bathed in high energy radio frequencies. But I think the journey has just begun. My generation has seen technology change the world to  a high degree. So it logical that technology will change us too. We are also an impatient lot and would not hesitate to incorporate new technology, even within our bodies, so that a short term goal is accomplished. With that I start the clock at two o'clock