机械眼睛让失明男子再现光明

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.

一名加拿大多伦多的电影纪录片制片人罗布?思朋斯在工程师们的帮助下，他受伤的右眼又获得了新生，不仅变成了摄像机，随时拍摄真实事件，而且像极了由施瓦辛格主演的电影《终结者》中机械人般的红色机械眼。据悉，机械眼可以拍摄他所看到的画面，并且拍摄效果逼真、并且机械眼未与大脑链接，不会损害制片人罗布?思朋斯自身的视力程度。

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.

这个名为eyeborg的“机械眼”总的来说就是一个无线摄像头，它只有3.2平方毫米，但是分辨率高达328x250像素。由OmniVision制造。据悉，眼球摄像机包括：一个数字摄像机、一个无线传输器和假眼中的一个电源电池。打个比方，它与一个像一张纸一样薄的印刷电路板连接在一起。该装置还包括一个无线发射器和二级管灯。这套系统的工作原理是：系统中的镜片部分内藏有一个线圈，而患者眼眶里的假眼珠四周也同样绕有线圈，里面则装有摄像头和植入的微芯片，镜片里的线圈可以利用电磁效应为摄像头和芯片供电，而为了防止水浸，微芯片则被密封在一个钛盒中。微芯片接收摄像头的视频信号，并把信号转换成电极信号。

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.

记者获悉，现年39岁的罗布?思朋斯在童年时右眼受到严重伤害，造成永久性损伤，虽然之后进行了右假体置换手术，但是自己的右眼能像正常眼睛一样看到事物是他最大的梦想，他说：“当让我看到手机里的智能摄像头的时候，我就在想，有没有可能有那么小的摄像头可以装进我的眼睛中去呢？”他还说：“起初，这个创新并不简单也不现实，太过于大胆以至于像极了科幻电影中的画面，但是我最终还是实现了我的梦想。”