Neil Harbisson’s Eyeborg

Neil Harbissons Eyeborg female horse Marrero Palm B all(prenominal) State College Abstract This paper explores the new scientific advances for people with Achromatopsia from research conducted mostly online. All of the research conducted explains the device on how it is used and what it is used for. It also shows how the croaks are conducted so the people using the eyeborg can understand it. Neil Harbissons Eyeborg Barcelona based artist, Neil Harbisson was born with a characterise called Achromatopsia which authority that he was born color-blind.He has described himself as a cyborgist and colorologist. With the financial aid of a new technological device that is attached to the plump for of his skull can restate color to sound. Harbisson can hear the color of sound by audible frequencies through with(predicate) this device in which he calls an eyeborg. Harbisson has used the term sonochromatism (or sonochromatopsia) to rig his new correct. He explains that achromatopsi a can no longer define his condition because achromatopsics can non perceive nor distinguish alter.He also explains that synesthesia does not define his condition accurately because the relation between color and sound varies depending on each person, whereas sonochromatopsia is an extra sense that relates color to sound objectively and equally to every whiz (Harbisson, 2012). The mentation for the device came round when he was attending Dartmouth College of Arts in England, where Harbisson met ten Montandon who was giving a lecture on cybernetics and they came together to start developing the eyeborg enter (Disaster, 2012).The device, called an eyeborg, comes out of the backwards of his head and hangs in front of his eyebrow. Jennifer lee side, writing for the unseasoned York Times, says Mr. Harbissons current eyeborg is pressed against the base of his head with extremely uplifted pressure, which allows the sounds to reverberate along his skull to his eardrums. But his new eyeborg, to be implanted in September, will be connected to his body through three screws in his head two to support the antenna and electronic chip, and a trinity for the sound to be passed into his skull, which will vibrate with the sound.He expects it will take about two months for the grind away to heal around the implant. (Lee, 2012) According to Jordan Chittley, he states that a chip that is implanted in Harbissons skull and then converts the well-to-do waves into sounds and he hears it through his bone. The eyeborg works with a head mounted camera that picks up the colors directly in front of a person, and converts them in real-time into sound waves (Neil, 2012). C on the scale represents blue, F represents red, A represents green and so on (Chittley, 2012).Harbisson can see up to a total of 360 colors, which is much than the naked eye can see. The first eyeborg had a computer agent which was the size of a laptop and Harbisson carried it around in a back pack (Molinsky , 2011). We are using technology constantly. Every single day we wear technology in our pockets, we sleep with technology beside our beds we never make out from technology. The simple next step is to attach all this to our body (Molinsky, 2011). Harbisson uses his eyeborg to help him paint in color.Harbisson states that the eyeborg looks like an antenna that comes out from my head and goes up to the front of my face. At the back of my head theres a chip which transforms the light waves into sound, and I hear the colors, not through my ears but through my bone (Harbisson, 2012). The spreading of the cyborg devices are being realized particularly with vision. in the beginning this year in Britain, surgeons have implanted chips in the eyes of patients with retinitis pigmentosa, which is a infirmity that causes gradual blindness, in order to stop and reverse their condition (Lee, 2012).When he intercommunicate with the hospital bioethics committee, Mr. Harbisson argued that this su rgical technique could be used on other(a) people (Lee, 2012). He said, in particular, that a more refined, classier versions of the sensor could be used for reading, like for example the need for Braille (Lee, 2012). According to Eric Molinsky, Harbisson uses his eyeborg to help him paint in color. He also states that Harbisson created sound portraits by scanning peoples faces and turning the resulting tones into on the spur of the moment musical compositions (Molinsky, 2011).Some of his subjects are his friends and family, while others are celebrities he had met previously (Molinsky, 2011). Harbisson believes that the eyeborg and other devices like itself should not only be used for people with disabilities. In his opinion, no one should be restricted to the senses that us humans have developed (Molinsky, 2011). Jennifer Lee states that Harbisson wants to see more improvements to his eyeborg, focusing mainly on the electricity credit (Lee, 2012).He has to change the antenna thr ough a USB port at the back of his head (Lee, 2012). He does not want to depend on electricity. . References Chittley, J. (2012, February 20). Eyeborg neil harbisson hears color with head-mounted camera. 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