Check out this pinhole camera that's made from 150-year-old skull. It really works, too!
4”x5” camera made from Aluminium, Titanium, Brass, Silver, Gem Stones and a 150 year old skull of a 13 year old girl. Light and time enters at the third eye, exposing the film in the middle of the skull.
Link via bioephemera.

This reminds me of a ghost story by M.R. James, in which a pair of binoculars are filled with the fluid from dead man's eyes (or something along those lines) and when you look through them you see the landscape as it was back then.
Posted by: Jen - The Alien Spouse | August 22, 2008 at 04:15 AM
I'm going to have to check that story out. Do you remember what it was called?
Posted by: Nutmegg98 | August 22, 2008 at 04:48 PM
Having consulted my M.R. James Collected Ghost Stories, I can confirm that story is called "A View From A Hill".
The BBC did a season of M.R. James ghost stories with a documentary about him a couple of years ago. There's still a page up on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/m-r-james.shtml
Posted by: Jen - The Alien Spouse | August 23, 2008 at 08:37 AM