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The Best Bionic Characters

As we recently reported, one-eyed filmmaker Rob Spence will be the next Bionic Man. The Canadian film whiz has crafted a prosthetic eye-masked camera to go undercover for a documentary about surveillance cameras he'll be filming. Spence's stroke of mad genius was partly inspired by the '70s drama The Six Million Dollar Man, in which Steve Austin, a brutally injured astronaut, is restored to life with the help of mechanical body parts....  read more

Filmmaker Rob Spence crafts eye-camera to go undercover

The notorious intro to Six Million Dollar Man ("Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, we have the technology.") has special meaning to filmmaker Rob Spence. Spence, a rabid fan of the '70s drama, damaged his eye in a childhood shooting accident, and had it removed three years ago. Now he's decided to capitalize on his loss, building a prosthetic eye-masked camera for an undercover documentary he'll be shooting....  read more