Color blind person creates world's first cyborg man to hear colors

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Neil Harbisson, has crafted the world's first cyborg man that allows him see colors by conveying musical tones to his brain.
The 31-year-old music artist said that it can be used to transmit colors from anyplace in the world but the overall aim is to search the use of bluetooth and Wi-Fi so he can have bone conducted internet connections and telephone calls using the antenna, the Daily Star reported.
Harbisson, who was born colour-blind, joined hands with his friend who was studying cybernetics and created a project where sounds were used to determine around 25 colors.
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First Published: May 10 2014 | 1:17 PM IST