Man loses eye to cancer, turns prosthetic eye into flashlight l GMA

Brian Stanley was diagnosed with retinoblastoma when he was 6 years old. After years of wearing a prosthetic eye, Stanley used his skills as an engineer to create what he calls a "cyborg eye."

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[WageHater.]

he really turned his weakness to his greatest strength. also those shades with that red eye goes hard as hell, i LOVE it.

[madelineschuttauf]

What an incredible man. It is extremely difficult to build off of one’s biggest insecurities and losses and turn them into something beautiful.

[trace]

What a great dude, and better yet he as a eye for design!

[mjremy]

Incredible! Taking a lemon and making lemonade. Fantastic, creative, scientific, and hugely inspirational. Thank you!

[Azrick]

I just lost my eye to cancer a few weeks ago. How do I get one of those?

[VoltscrewVolt]

This guy is so badass, Imagine if Demoman had that!

[lennyt]

I am impressed! He also mentioned a few problems with losing an eye and I recognize and empathize with him because I didn't lose an eye - I just went blind in one. And I got sick of people saying, "Oh yeah, but you still have one good eye so no problem". Wrong. So much changes. It took me, at 59 years old, 2 years to fully adapt. As Brian said, so much to process. Just watching him with the original prosthetic eye and his amazing modifications, makes me envious. Because of a small sliver of light still coming in on the left side of my left eye, that is where my eye points. It makes me look whacky...well, whackier. But I'm wondering...is Brian is considering marketing his product?

[omohosp]

My bf lost his eye to cancer when he was a little kid. He’s always been embarrassed of his prosthetic, but I’ve always seen it as a beautifully unique part of him. I am going to show him this video.

[francoismorin]

Sir you can make the most awesome T800 cosplay ever

[venkatadri]

That's just amazing and looks super cool...!!

[davidvalenta]

I like his heart attitude..
But it's not a flashlight
... It's a headlight ❤

[itspurplepaw]

From the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh

[fabman]

Legit flashlight eye. Love that. But as a cosplay enthusiast....cannot stress how awesome that is. So chuffed for this guy

[Fifenfurter]

I literally looked up prosthetic eyes to see what kind of options there were in case something as unfortunate as that ever happened to me. I knew there'd be something cool out there. This looks sick af. Brilliant dude.

[WhiskeyToro]

Never thought I'd ever wish for losing an eye.

[tdavani]

I am trying to help another person with the same problem be able to do the flash light led part. I can make the eyy but i would like to know how you did this and how safe it is with battery part and how you charge it every night?


I hope you can do how to making it led and its issues

[larnregis]

His introduction to women: "I am Borg, resistance is futile."

[OrangeJulius_JMC]

Wouldn't that get hot in the socket or is it made to not produce much heat after extended use, especially with how bright they are?

[Msbuddysej]

That is too amazing. Wowwww. I'm impressed.

[RichGwilliam]

This is especially historically cool because Plato believed that visual perception used "eye beams" - your eye shot out beams that bounced off things and back into the eye. Now we know that the eye doesn't shoot beams at all - it just collects photons. Except this guy's; he has one eye that shoots the photons out and one that collects them. For the first time in history, Plato was right on this. For just this one guy.