Neil Harbisson is the world's first cyborg. He had an antenna implanted into his skull which gives him the ability to perceive color.Harbisson was diagnosed with complete color-blindness as a child. Computer scientist Adam Montandon developed what they called the "eyeborg." The apparatus is 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 can listen to through headphones. Harbisson's new condition is name: sonochromatopsia, an extra sense that connects colors with sound. Sonochromatopsia makes each color correspond to a specific sound. It took about five weeks to get over the headaches from the sounds of each new color and about five months to be able to decipher each frequency as a particular color he could now hear as a sound.
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