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Color-blind artist uses sounds to ‘see’ color

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Neil Harbisson is a color-blind artist. But, rather than limiting his art to shades of gray, he’s turned to technology to help him develop the ability to hear the colors that he cannot see.

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Neil Harbisson, Cyborg

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Color-Blind Artist Neil Harbisson Uses Webcam-Like Eyeborg to ‘Hear’ Color

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Neil Harbisson, Cyborg

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Cyborg Society

Producer Bob Carty has the third part of his series, Generation Next: Remaking the Human Race. This segment examines the benefits and consequences of melding man with machine to create cyborgs – people with bodies aided or controlled by technical devices. For modern science, the cyborg is presenting some exciting, and also disturbing, possibilities.

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Eyeborg: Filmmaker wants to install a wireless camera in his eye to document life

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Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence is taking the all-seeing eye concept to a new level, combining reality TV, public journalism and documentary filmmaking. If he can raise the money, he’ll install a wireless video camera into his own prosthetic eye.

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