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Luxvid Eyes (Jensen Wide-Angle)  
  Artificial, unmoving implanted eyes.  

And he was blind... But replacements had been made - at the prices which Eldritch could and would pay; that had been done just prior to his Prox voyage by Brazilian oculists. They had done a superb job. The replacements, fitted into the bone sockets, had no pupils, nor did any ball move by muscular action. Instead a panoramic vision was supplied by a wide-angle lens, a permanent horizontal slot running from edge to edge... His horizontally slotted artificial eyes seemed to please him...
Technovelgy from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick.
Published by Doubleday in 1965
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