The Eyeborg Project is the brainchild of Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence. Spence, who has one prosthetic eye from a childhood accident, wants to insert a miniature camera into the eye socket to film his next documentary on the subject of surveillance. Spence has taken the fund raising for his project on the road where he was scheduled to appear at a media conference in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2009.Reuters: Filmmaker plans Eyeborg eye-socket camera (March 5, 2009)

"In Toronto there are 12,000 cameras. But the strange thing I discovered was that people don't care about the surveillance cameras, they were more concerned about me and my secret camera eye because they feel that is a worse invasion of their privacy." - Rob SpenceReuters: Filmmaker plans Eyeborg eye-socket camera (March 5, 2009)

The eyes are the sensory organs that provide sight to the brain. The eyes are sensitive to light, which they convert into electrical impulses that are transmitted to the brain.VisionChannel Eye Anatomy & Physiology The retina of an eyeball contains approximately 120 million rods and eight million cones by which it transfers the images of light.Midland Eye Institute: Eye Facsts During a normal lifespan, the eyes will process almost 24 million images.Cool Nurse: Did You Know?