Hasta La Gadget!

There will be no more student chatter behind Wafaa Bilal’s back while he’s
teaching. The NYU assistant professor visiting from Iraq
plans to undergo surgery to have small camera implanted in his head. The
project would broadcast a live stream of classroom to a meseum in Qatar.

Bilal plans to have surgery to implant the camera in the
next year. The camera will stream still images at a rate of one-per-minute. The
surgery will create a piercing onto which the camera (thumbnail-sized,
according to The Wall Street Journal) can be attached.

The project has been deemed “The 3rd I.” The museum
describes it as “a comment on the inaccessibility of time, and the
inability to capture memory, and experience.”