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_9OUvmb5Ifloat 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 random, halfbakery