a sanfranciscobased artist wants to replace her missing eye with a webcam which might allow her to record her entire life or even shoot a reality tv show and experts said that it is possibleid always given thought to using cameras to restore sight to the blind said william danz whose patient tanya vlach wants the groundbreaking device this is a little different more like james bond stuffvlach who lost her eye in a 2005 car accident wears a realistic acrylic prosthesis but shes issued a challenge to engineers on her blog build an eyecam for her prosthesis that can dilate with changes of light and allow her to blink to control its zoom focus and onoff switch reports the ny daily newsthere have been all sorts of cyborgs in science fiction for a long time and im sort of a scifi geek vlach 35 was quoted by the daily as saying with the advancement of technology i thought why notthe eyecam could allow her to record her entire life or even shoot a reality tv show from her eyes perspective vlach said she will let inspiration strike once she has the device could that result in invasion of someones privacy there are a lot of ideas floating aroundnothing too exploitative said vlach i dont want to be a spy and infringe on peoples rights and at the same time there are amazing possibilitiesvlachs challenge first reported by tech blogger kevin kelly has inspired blog posts from around the world and emails to vlach from dozens of eager engineersmobile computing expert roy want said the technology exists it is possible to build a wireless camera with the dimensions of the eyeball said want a senior principal engineer at intel you can find spy cams or nanny cams designed to fit into inconspicuous places in the homewant said the camera which would be encased in vlachs prosthesis to avoid moisture could link wirelessly to a smart phone the smart phone could send power to the camera wirelessly and relay the cameras video feed by cell phone network to another person a tv studio or a computer