Makeover

2009 January 6
by Tanya

In case people were wondering, this IS the blog formerly known as ONE-EYED… read more…

Happy New Year!

2009 January 3
by Tanya

Humans hope high tech can improve their bodies
by Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

New Year’s Day, January 1st, 2009

Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco artist who lost her left eye in an accident, wants to replace it with a video system. (Mike Kepka / The Chronicle)

Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco artist who lost her left eye in an accident, wants to replace it with a video system. (Mike Kepka / The Chronicle)

WHOA! … Thank you thank you thank you!

2008 December 5

Re: Call for Engineers, http://tanyavlach.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/call-for-engineers/

I lost my right eye in Iraq and I think it is awesome what you are doing!  You go girl!!!! I hope it all works out for you.  It is an awesome way to pave the way in technology.

This is my favorite comment so far  … read more…

CALL FOR ENGINEERS

2008 November 11

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. – Donna J. Haraway

Eye-Camera

An intraocular installation of an eye-cam. An experiment in wearable technology, cybernetics, and perception.

extremeclsupshell1Prosthesis designed by Ocularist, William Danz. Photo by Jonathan James

I am attempting to recreate my eye with the help of a miniature camera implant in my prosthetic / artificial eye. read more…

The Pausch List

2008 July 28

Que viva las palabras de Dr. Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon Professor, who died late July from pancreatic cancer.

Here’s the you tube video of his farewell speech at the Last Lecture Series at Carnegie Mellon … it’s what I consider the real “Bucket List.” Seriously these are words to live by…

read more…

Prototype for Eye-Cam

2008 May 20

Vets suffer loss of eye-sight

2008 March 10
by Tanya

The future of vision

2007 December 21
by Tanya

The quest for super vision by David Plotz

From laser surgery, to cyberoptics, to seeing infrared… I love this article from The Slate.

slippery slope from iPhone to iEye

2007 July 20
by Tanya

in case you wanted to see my fake eye dance

2007 June 9
by Tanya

which one isn’t real? fake eye dance to lhasa #1

this is very raw, i mean crude footage… more dances to come…