The 32-year-old was born with an illness that makes him completely colorblind
He has a device implanted in his skull which translates color into sound
As a child growing up in a coastal town in Catalonia, Spain, Harbisson was diagnosed with achromatopsia,
complete color-blindness. In 2004, he decided to find a way out of his
black-and-white world, by developing a technology that would provide him
with a sensory experience that no other human had ever experienced.
The idea came while
studying experimental music composition at Dartington College of Arts in
Devon, England. For his final project, Harbisson and the computer
scientist Adam Montandon developed the first incarnation of what they called the "eyeborg." The
apparatus was an antenna attached to a five-kilogram computer and a pair
of headphones. The webcam at the end of the antenna translated each
color into 360 different sound waves that Harbisson could listen to
through headphones.
A cyborg (short for "cybernetic organism") is a being with both organic and biomechatroniv parts.
The term cyborg is often applied to an organism that has restored
function or enhanced abilities due to the integration of some artificial
component or technology that relies on some sort of feedbak
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