Maybe you could sell ad space on it. A Nike logo or something.
Insect eye of course.
Eye patch.
There was a mom at my kids’ school who was having eye trouble and had to cover her eye for a while. She could have gone with a bandage but instead she went with an embroidered black patch. It was much hotter that I would have imagined. She looked pretty plain without it.
Assuming I can find a way to avoid infection, I’d be tempted to go au naturel at times, the better to freak people out. It’d speed up my passage through the line at McDonald’s.
I’d go for the Eye of Rhynn, if it was available. Otherwise, just a normal glass eye.
I would have a few patches and a good dozen eyes, I love the idea of making it a functional camera. having seen what an hd webcam looks like torn apart I would guess you might even be able to get an hd eyeball. battery might be the limit though.
at least one of the eyes would have that cartoon X, then I could wear the patch over the other eye while napping to freak people out.
Threads like this are a big part of the reason I love the SDMB. Now I’m finding myself half-wishing I’d lose an eye somehow so I could rotate among a series of eye patches and glass or functional eyes. Is that weird?
I have thought about this. First of all, if I do lose an eye, I hope it’s the left one, because that one sucks. As for what I’d replace it with, I’ve got a couple of good ideas.
Idea one: A bottle opener. No more looking for around, or carrying one with me all the time. Just jam that sucker in the empty socket and give it a pull.
Idea two: A glass eye that is a negative image of my real eye. A white pupil, a black white, an orange-red iris. I could close my real eye, give people the STARE OF DOOM, except, I wouldn’t be able to see if I did that, so they could just walk away from the STARE.
Idea three: An eye patch over idea one or two. I could take it off whenever I want to freak someone out/open a beer. Of course if I wore an eye patch I’d have to keep my head shaved and get a bad-ass scar across my face. That last one probably wouldn’t be a problem, because anything likely to lose me an eye would also gain me a scar.
Eyepatch. I already have the cowboy hat, I might as well go the full Rooster Cogburn!
How about a mirrored one that reflects back a fish-eye view of the surroundings?
Satellite Dish.
Prosthetic eye with a pair of scissors sticking out of it.
I thought of another one! A tiny gun, like a little revolver, just sticking out of my eye socket. The only serious drawback I can see is that I wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation to overuse the obvious jokes, and they would get obnoxious.
Arrrr! Sure and ye stole me idea!
Okay, I’ll steal from Peter Falk, I’d get a glass eye with a built-in twinkle!
This needs to be a poll, public, so that I can pity the fool that doesn’t say eye patch.
Terminator eye, with a red LED.
Or this.
I would use my socket as a storage area for small snack items.
Well, you know what they say… everything tastes better after it’s been jammed into a human skull!
I’d get a custom made jack-in-the-box, alien on a spring installed. It’d be like something out of Alien: instead of it bursting out of my chest, it’d burst out my eye on command. Great for breaking the ice, one-upping someone on the “well, my parasitic thing-of-the-week is bigger…SPROING!”, and scaring the bejeezus out of small children.
I was thinking something a little more gothic, like Charles Laughton’s right eye makeup as Quasimodo, seen here. Of course, it would be a prosthetic that I could take off, but still, I’ve always been strangely drawn to the droopy side of his face.
It might add some time to my morning routine, however, to get properly made up every day.
Roddy