When Neil Harbisson was a kid, he could only see in black and white. <\/p>\n
In fact, he wasn't totally convinced that colors actually existed. <\/p>\n
But now, Harbisson can sense color. <\/p>\n
He still can't see colors. But now he can hear them with a device he helped create in 2004 called the Eyeborg. <\/p>\n
The device can detect 360 colors the human eye can normally perceive. It also detects infrared light. <\/p>\n
\"Hearing colors changes the way you see everything,\" Harbisson says in a Cyborg Foundation video. <\/p>\n
Harbisson says he finds the sounds generated by colors in supermarkets \"stimulating.\" <\/p>\n
He also turns music, like Justin Bieber's \"Baby,\" for example, into vibrant paintingstranslating the sounds of the song back into the colors he's learned to associate with them. <\/p>\n
Harbisson says that he is the first legally recognized cyborg in the world, as his passport photo shows him with the Eyeborg attached to his head. <\/p>\n
\"It's not the union between the Eyeborg and my head what converts me to a cyborg,\" Harbisson says. It's \"the union between the software and my brain. My body and technology have united.\" <\/p>\n
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