Born with the inability to see color, Neil Harbisson
wears a prosthetic device that allows
him to hear the spectrum, even those colors beyond the range of human sight.
His unique experience of color until he met cyberneticist Adam Montandon at a
college lecture, was strictly black-and-white. By working with Montandon, and
later with Peter Kese, Harbisson helped design a lightweight eyepiece that he
wears on his forehead that transposes the light frequencies of color into sound frequencies.
Answer the following questions
1. Neil was born with achromatopsia. What is it?
2. How old was he when he started "hearing colour"?
3. What is the "eyeborg"?
4. How long has he been hearing colour?
5. How did he manage when he started the project?
6. When did he realize that the software and his brain had united?
7. In which way is his passport exceptional?
8. Why does he compare going to a supermarket to going to a nightclub?
9. How has his way of dressing changed?
10. What side effect does he mention?
11. What are the good things of perceiving infrared and ultraviolet?
12. Why does he encourage us to "extend our senses"?
