終結者形象成真 失明男子製造機械眼
A one-eyed documentary filmmaker has revealed how he has turned his prosthetic eye into a miniature video camera. Rob Spence, from Toronto, is able to record what he sees through his other eye. It is not linked to his brain and hasn't restored his vision.
一名加拿大多倫多的電影紀錄片製片人羅布?思朋斯在工程師們的幫助下，他受傷的右眼又獲得了新生，不僅變成了攝像機，隨時拍攝真實事件，而且像極了由施瓦辛格主演的電影《終結者》中機械人般的紅色機械眼。據悉，機械眼可以拍攝他所看到的畫面，並且拍攝效果逼真、並且機械眼未與大腦連結，不會損害製片人羅布?思朋斯自身的視力程度。
The device crams a video camera, wireless transmitted and battery inside Rob's empty eye socket - no mean feat when you consider the tallest space is only 9mm high. The 'eyeborg' then transmits a video signal to a handheld screen. The eye is not connected to Rob's brain and has not restored his vision. Instead it can show others how he sees the world in real-time. A tiny camera, just 3.2mm squared, was donated by OmniVision, a California-based company that specializes in the miniature cameras found in cell phones, laptops and endoscopes. It had a resolution of 328x250pixels.
這個名為eyeborg的“機械眼”總的來說就是一個無線攝像頭，它只有3.2平方毫米，但是解析度高達328x250畫素。由OmniVision製造。據悉，眼球攝像機包括：一個數字攝像機、一個無線傳輸器和假眼中的一個電源電池。打個比方，它與一個像一張紙一樣薄的印刷電路板連線在一起。該裝置還包括一個無線發射器和二級管燈。這套系統的工作原理是：系統中的鏡片部分內藏有一個線圈，而患者眼眶裡的假眼珠四周也同樣繞有線圈，裡面則裝有攝像頭和植入的微晶片，鏡片裡的線圈可以利用電磁效應為攝像頭和晶片供電，而為了防止水浸，微晶片則被密封在一個鈦盒中。微晶片接收攝像頭的視訊訊號，並把訊號轉換成電極訊號。
Mr Spence lost his eye in a childhood shooting accident and it was removed from the socket five years ago. A fan of the 1970s televsion series 'The Six Million Dollar Man,' Mr Spence said he had an epiphany when looking at his mobile phone camera and realising something that small could fit into his empty eye socket. He contacted engineer Kosta Grammatis in 2009 who came and stayed with him for three weeks while they made their first attempt at building the device. 'It wasn't easy, but because it's so like pop fiction, engineers had a lot of fun making it - without a budget I was able to do it - it was a fun project for these guys,' Mr Spence told Sky News.
記者獲悉，現年39歲的羅布?思朋斯在童年時右眼受到嚴重傷害，造成永久性損傷，雖然之後進行了右假體置換手術，但是自己的右眼能像正常眼睛一樣看到事物是他最大的夢想，他說：“當讓我看到手機裡的智慧攝像頭的時候，我就在想，有沒有可能有那麼小的攝像頭可以裝進我的眼睛中去呢？”他還說：“起初，這個創新並不簡單也不現實，太過於大膽以至於像極了科幻電影中的畫面，但是我最終還是實現了我的夢想。”
