The Eyeborg

Meet the Eyeborg

Rob Spence is a Canadian documentary maker also known as "the Eyeborg" because he has a camera in his right eye, which he lost after an accident with a gun. His best-known documentary is "Deus Ex: the Eyeborg documentary" in which he uses his eye-camera to interview people with prosthetic limbs. This documentary has been produced with the collaboration of the makers of the videogame: "Deus Ex: Human revolution". Rob thinks that in a non-distant future we will live two times longer as we do now, thanks to prosthetic limbs or bio-mechanical organs. His theory is really interesting because of the fact that scientists nowadays are working on an intelligent-arm-system that can replace an amputated limb. Who knows what the future will deserve us?

• Title: Meet the Eyeborg
• Who: Rob Spence
• When: 2008
• What: His right eye
• Why: Because he lost it after an accident
• How: By replacing it with a camera

Bat Country

Bats!

The city of Austin (see the picture above) has an original tourist attraction: bats. These bats fly every day upon the Congress Avenue Bridge giving people a spectacular view. Nowadays there are more bats than people in this town. During the 1980s the city restored its main bridge offering bats a safe place to sleep. Every evening from March to November over than a million bats cross the bridge, this "show" lasts an hour. In the past people considered them mortal and dangerous animals, but now the National Association of bat protection resolved everything, in fact, those animals eat between 5000-10.000 Kgs of insects each day and people consider them harmless and helpful.

• Title: Bats!
• Topic: Bat country
• Who/what: People-bats
• When: 1980
• Where: Austin, Texas
• How: By restoring the Congress Avenue Bridge

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London's cab shelter

London's cab shelter

During the Victorian Era in the streets of London you could find these compact green huts built in order to offer cabbies a place where they could get hot meals and drinks. At the time was illegal for a driver to leave the vehicle unattended and he would have to pay someone else to watch his horse and cab. The idea to build a dedicated shelter for cabbies was the brainchild of an ex-soldier: Captain Armstrong. On a cold winter's day in 1875 he sent out his assistant into a blizzard only to find that all the drivers were getting drunk in a local pub and were unable to drive. So a furious Cpt. Armstrong decided to set up the Cabmen's shelter fund on February 6th, 1875. This fund provided cabbie drivers with: a shelter, food and drinks at reasonable prices. In total were built 61 shelters between 1875-1882. Unfortunately today only 13 cab shelters are still "alive" since a large number of them were destroyed by nazis during the blitz of the Second World War.