Rob Spence, a documentary filmmaker from Canada, has been unable to use his right eye since it was damaged in a firearms accident as a child.

After wearing an eyepatch for many years, he recently got a prosthetic eye implanted – and decided he wanted to become what he calls an “Eyeborg” – a part-human, part-camera cyborg.

“I was looking at the small camera on my cellphone, and I got to thinking about the Bionic Man,” he said in a recent video on his website.

“I want to turn my prosthetic eye into a wireless camera,”