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Computer: Storage: Memory
Spy Eye   (+3, -1)  [vote for, against]
store data in the vitreous fluid of the eye

Agent 'I' is being given a new assignment- to transport data to another agent in a remote location. I is not sure he likes this mission. He’s been told the microscopic microchip will be injected into his vitreous fluid of his eyeball and drift around harmlessly until needed. I imagines one could extract the information from it via eye scan technology. I hopes that is the plan.

“Who’s clever Eye-dea was this!?” he wondered. “How can I keep my Eye on the prize when my Eye is the Prize!” he exclaimed. “Personally I would not like to See how this is going to come out!” And other such i-maginings.

But when the Capt. of the division says do something, you just say “Eye-Eye!”
-- dentworth, Jul 09 2010

Pre-Macular Bursa http://vitreousfloa.../floatersyoung.html
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 10 2010]

Floaters http://www.youtube....watch?v=gT_9OUvmb5I
float on [xenzag, Jul 11 2010]

Meye meye. Eye queyete leyeke this. [+]
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 09 2010


I know someone who had the vitreous fluid cleaned of floaters. I'm plagued by a few floaters myself, and was curious about how it's done. It's not an easy or recommended procedure.
-- dentworth, Jul 09 2010


This idea has several obvious advantages over implanting an RFID chip in the spy's arm, or butt: Instead of a small, concealable RFID-reader, usable by untrained personnel, this could be read using a slitlamp (a bulky, delicate instrument requiring skill and midriatic eyedrops to use). An additional advantage would be that the RFID chip is near-undetectable if you don't know the correct code, whereas the "Spy Eye" would stand out like a sore thumb on a routine eye exam.

So, the device is useful in certain situations:

1) When there's no opportunity to send specialized equipment, or very little opportunity to prearrange codes with him. For example, the recipient is a potential defector in the enemy organization. (Ideally a highly resourceful individual with access to a slitlamp; alternatively, a mortician.)

2) When the person carrying the message isn't supposed to know he's carrying it. For example, the sender is a potential defector, sending a "message in a bottle" to a foreign government: "Dear comrade opthalmologist. Please forward this microdot to your government's Central Intelligence Agency."
-- mouseposture, Jul 10 2010


Floaters suck.
I also see the vitreous humor itself quite clearly in certain light. It is made up of those same clear-ish rings that make up the long tangled floater strands.

The eyedea eye leyeky.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 10 2010


Apparently it might not be the vitreous humor I see, and the floaters might not come from there either but from something called the Pre-Macular Bursa . [link]
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 10 2010


There's probably a market in custom floaters, with chosen images.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 10 2010


I was originally thinking the data would be visible to the carrier, but that seemed like bad science
-- dentworth, Jul 11 2010


[max] you have an interesting point, if the floaters could be shaped like kittens for example, you can make them bounce up and down across your vision, and make a little story in your mind...but wouldn't that get old quickly!
-- dentworth, Jul 30 2010


Glittery floaters would be visible to others - you'd always have a twinkle in your eye.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 30 2010



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