Growing up Neil Harbisson was completely color blind due to achromatopsia. To understand the concepts of color he could only memorize that the sky was blue, apples were red and grass was green.
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Neil developed the Eyeborg in 2004 to transform colors into sounds. He frames the cyborg experience as the interface between the software and his brain, instead of the pop culture notion that a cyborg is mechanical parts grafted onto a human body.
Harbisson says that broad natural landscapes and seascapes aren’t as sonically beautiful as he imagined they would be. Grocery stores, however, have a wealth of different colors and the sounds processed into the brain are joyful and stimulating.
Socially, there are problems being a cyborg. Neil is kicked out of movie theaters when his sensor is perceived as a recording device, and sometimes removed from supermarkets when the device is misunderstood. But the sensor is recognized by the United Kingdom proper and sits atop Neil’s head in his passport picture.
The Cyborg Foundation was started when Harbisson began to hear from people who wanted to extend their senses. He acts as a voice for cyborg rights and promotes the use of cybernetics as part of the body. The idea is that human nature drives us to modify the body with human creations, from clothes to jewelry to mechanical implants.
The color sensor started with just a few colors recognized and now senses three hundred sixty different colors, more closely modeling human sight. Neil can now see infrared colors and is working on seeing ultraviolet spectrums. Next in development are a cybernetic nose to allow people to smell using electromagnetic signals, and a speed sensor that allows users to perceive the speed of objects in front of them. As the population ages and orthotics and prosthetic devices become more common the use of cybernetic sensors will no doubt become more and more visible.