Tele-eye
While webcams are really about providing us with a window to a different place, surveillance cameras are most often used for security and protection. They are placed in discreet places to see who goes by and what they do, ready to catch any 'evil' deeds. They transfer the image of the place they are in to someone who is overseeing (a security guard), or to a machine that is recording, or sometimes nowhere at all. This is such a common concept that numerous websites are selling imitation security cameras that you can attach to the outside of your house if you can't afford a real one and want to scare away people with bad intentions.
Traditionally the act of seeing is considered so powerful that there is a very widespread, deeply rooted in very old traditions belief that someone can harm you just by looking at you, by casting on you the Evil Eye. To protect yourself from that, you would wear one of a variety of amulets, depending on where you are from (different cultures have different amulets). Greeks and Turks use a blue bead that represents an eye as protection against the Evil Eye. I am not sure why that is, but one interpretation is that the protective eye reflects the malevolent gaze, protecting its wearer.
By merging the iconic traditional eye with a camera, the symbolic charm turns into an active observer, perhaps one that, at a time that superstitions are frowned upon and technology is glorified, might be able to protect you better. The renewed eye contains a cell phone camera embedded into a blue bead. It is worn discreetly on your body, observing (and recording?) everything even when you are not. A blinking red light mimics the status light of video cameras and indicates that the amulet is functioning. Wearing it and believing that you are protected by it is still a matter of faith however, as it is not certain that what is seen by the camera is being sent to someone who will be able to protect you.
