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Professor Installs Camera in Head

Posted December 06, 2010 8:45 AM

From CNN.com - Technology:

Some students joke that their teachers have eyes in the backs of their heads. A New York University professor is now closer to that reality, having had a camera surgically implanted into the back of his cranium. Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi born photography professor at the university's Tisch School of the Arts, had the procedure done at a piercing studio last month for an art project commissioned by a museum in Doha, Qatar, he said.

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12/06/2010 10:42 AM

Oddly the article doesn't go on to explain what this Professor is planning to do with all the vast remaining empty space in his cranium.
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12/06/2010 1:27 PM

He put the camera in his head because he couldn't install any common sense.
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12/06/2010 3:53 PM

He considered another location for the camera, but realized it would give him a crappy outlook on life.

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12/06/2010 5:18 PM

I wonder what will happen when he tries to get through the TSA screening process on his next flight?
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12/06/2010 5:58 PM

"A project like this is meant to establish a dialogue about surveillance."

As if there wouldn't be enough dialog already. Introducing a paranoid freak to the discussion would help? Just mentioning art in that context is shameful. Get a life, not a second out look on it!

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12/07/2010 1:25 PM

I saw this guy on the news, he could only put the camera on his implanted "mount" for a few seconds, because it hurt like hell... well, they said that's because it's fresh, but I have my doubts. Given the network of nerves on your scalp, mounting any weight on it is apt to cause a headache... I'll stick with my periscope, thankx....

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12/07/2010 4:23 PM

My tin foil hat is just as painful but the pain is located elsewhere. It proves that there can be pain in a vacuum.

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12/07/2010 7:11 PM

hmmm... very festive looking hat there. I like the pine cone. but it would probably give me a headache.

even this would give me a headache.

hence my decision never to marry royalty. a choice I have never regretted.

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12/07/2010 8:30 PM

Who will watch the watchers wierdos?

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