It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, yet it could soon be real - Google has filed a patent for a special device that is inserted into your eye, Digital Spy reports.

The patent describes the procedure and use of the special lens, which is intended to aid those with impaired vision by helping to focus light on the eye's retina.

It would hypothetically be coupled with the eye's lens capsule following removal of the natural one, the inserted device containing storage, sensors, radio, battery and an electronic lens.

If that didn't sound futuristic enough, the eyeball computer would be paired with an external device, and would be powered wirelessly from an "energy harvesting antenna" (via Forbes).

As this is only a patent, the device will not necessarily see the light of day. Still, the age of cyborgs seems to be getting closer, Digital Spy said.