Eyeborg Project

What a day. Rob had the audacity to bang on my door and wake me up after a measly three hours of sleep. I guess it was my fault for going to bed at 7 a.m. — but can you blame me? Toronto is a happening city, it’s dying to be romped around in during the wee hours of the morning.  I promise you I wasn’t staying out of trouble.

But the good news is that the stunningly beautiful Kris Reyes from City News had arrived to do a bit of an interview.   I remembered to not wear the same shirt that I’ve worn for the last few televised interviews.  C’mon though, it’s part of marketing, wear the same lame shirt and someone is bound to remember what the hell you’re doing.  Right? Right?  Probably not.

After that we rushed of to CTV to shoot a spot for The Daily Planet show.  I monkeyed around with linear editing equipment, and Rob tried his best not to freak the world out while he… uh…. “manually installed” a prototype eye housing.   Removing and installing a cyborg eye for the television cameras is not alarming in the least– it’s fun. Right kids?  Stay tuned for that.  Actually– have a picture.

In other news– the camera board is up and running off of battery power.  Now it’s just a matter of integrating the whole thing together.

Stay smart eyeborg readers! You’re the best.

-Kosta

Jimmy Fallon Spoofs the Eyeborg Project from eyeborg on Vimeo.

Thank you Jimmy Fallon for your comic wonderment.

Kosta looks like a deer in headlights from eyeborg on Vimeo.

Kosta does his first LIVE interview with FOX News. A future in television– definite maybe. The brilliant part of this clip: Rob is referred to as a man who wishes to “fight crime!” EYBORGMAN WILL SAVE THE DAY! We love it.

You were kind enough to mention your interest in the EyeBorg Project on your twitter feed. We’re glad you’re hiring one-eyed people, because we have just the guy for you! Lets get in touch, because we have some ideas for the best punk’d ever.

There’s a rumor going around that the eyeborg team put up a new movie about the project.  We hate rumors, so we’re here to set the record straight– yes we have, and you can watch it here.

In other news:  all the worlds a-twitter and so are we.  Follow us, or we’ll shoot laser beams out of our eye at you.

http://twitter.com/eyeborg

hugs n’ stuff

I would like to give a big shoutout to Joenis of  Anhedonia Blue and Ali of Spaghetti Strap Western for their amazing help in creating the new website. We’re not just a blog anymore!

Some updates:
Kosta sent in the first revision of the eye for manufacturing– thank you Candor Industries for making the thinnest PCB board we’ve ever seen, and Micro Art for soldering the BGA (ball grid array = so small you need a microscope and an xray machine to solder these components!) packages we’re having some difficulties getting the CMOS sensor fired up, but we’re learning a ton!

Rob is in Brussels at the moment talking to the press at the 2009 Digital News Affairs Conference. He’s a a big speaker– his mom and all of us are very proud.

We’ve all been shooting a ton of video and Rob is putting together an EPIC trailer about the the project. You should see it on the home page of the website in a few days.

Big thing are coming! Stay tuned!