Neil harbisson
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Neil Harbisson is completely colorblind but has developed an "eyeborg" device that allows him to perceive color as sound. The eyeborg, developed with Adam Montandon, uses a camera mounted on Harbisson's head to detect colors and translate them into specific musical pitches that Harbisson hears. Now Harbisson experiences the world through a unique combination of visual and auditory perception, saying "I receive color through the bone, and I’m listening to you through the ears." His device has helped him appreciate color in new ways and sparked interest from other artists exploring color and sound.
![Montandon then considered a device
that would simply say the names of
colors aloud, but this didn’t sit right
with him either. “I wanted to give
him something a bit more magical,”
Montandon recalls. Finally, he
thought about the physical
similarities of light and sound. “Light
is a wavelength that moves very
fast,” he says. “[If] you slow it down
enough, it stops becoming visible. It
starts becoming audible.”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/neilharbisson-121110142709-phpapp02/85/Neil-harbisson-11-320.jpg)
![Indeed, Harbisson’s eyeborg
is catching the attention of
some musicians and artists.
The pianist Jools Holland, used a version of the device to
accompany live concerts held in 2009–2010 across the U.K.
“He likes to improvise, [so] we created a reverse system that
would turn his music into colors and lights as he played.”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/neilharbisson-121110142709-phpapp02/85/Neil-harbisson-16-320.jpg)
Neil harbisson
- 1. The Sound of Color “Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body“ Neil Harbisson Jasso V. M. Patricia Martínez M. María Berenice Ruiz Trejo Luz Adriana
- 2. Introduction to the subject
- 3. What Is Achromatopsia? Congenital achromatopsia is a rare hereditary vision disorder which affects 1 person in 33,000 in the U. S. Persons who have achromatopsia do not have normal "cone vision." In the retinas of normal eyes there are 6 million cone photoreceptors, located mostly at the center of the retina. There are complete and incomplete forms of achromatopsia.
- 4. Persons with complete achromatopsia must rely on their "rod vision." In the normal eye there are 100 million rod photoreceptors. Rods are located mostly at the periphery of the retina. Rods "saturate" at higher levels of illumination. Therefore, the eyes of achromats, lacking normal cone vision and having only rod vision, are not able to adapt normally to higher levels of illumination. Rods do not provide color vision or good detail vision.
- 5. CYBORG A cyborg, short for ”cybernetic organism", is a being with both biological and artificial parts. See for example biomaterials and bioelectronics. The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human- machine systems in outer space. The termcyborg is often applied to an organism that has enhanced abilities due to technology, though this perhaps oversimplifies the necessity of feedback for regulating the subsystem. The more strict definition of Cyborg is almost always considered as increasing or enhancing normal capabilities.
- 6. Eyeborg An eyeborg is a cybernetic body apparatus which typically fits on the wearer's head, and is designed to allow people to perceive color through sound waves. It is mostly used by blind people or by people with visual impairments such as color blindness or achromatopsia. It works with a head-mounted camera that reads the colors directly in front of a person, and converts them in real-time into sound waves.
- 7. Frequency spectrum Any signal that can be represented as an amplitude that varies with time has a corresponding frequency spectrum. This includes familiar concepts such as visible light (color), musical notes, radio/TV channels, and even the regular rotation of the earth. Often, the frequency spectrum clearly shows harmonics, visible as distinct spikes or lines signal.
- 8. Neil Harbisson A completely colorblind musician and painter perceives the world in a new way with help from technology.
- 9. As a kid growing up in Barcelona. “I noticed that other students at school could identify colors easier than me,” he recalls. “Then I knew there was a problem with color.”
- 10. As a music composition student at the Dartington College of Arts in England. Harbisson approached the young speaker, cybernetics innovator Adam Montandon, then at the University of Plymouth, to describe his condition and ask if there might be a way to help him perceive color.
- 11. Montandon then considered a device that would simply say the names of colors aloud, but this didn’t sit right with him either. “I wanted to give him something a bit more magical,” Montandon recalls. Finally, he thought about the physical similarities of light and sound. “Light is a wavelength that moves very fast,” he says. “[If] you slow it down enough, it stops becoming visible. It starts becoming audible.”
- 12. In just 2 weeks’ time, Montandon and Harbisson created a device that translated the light waves that correspond to different colors into sounds with different pitches. The prototype, constructed from an inexpensive computer webcam, a laptop carried in a backpack, and a pair of old headphones, “It was fairly primitive, but it was good enough”.
- 13. “Then he just ran off down the corridor… I couldn’t stop him. He went to listen to absolutely everything.” Montandon. Harbisson “hadn’t even switched off the computer.”
- 14. “It’s like listening to electronic music” says Harbisson, who now wears a refined version of the device, which he calls an “eyeborg.”
- 15. Today, the system comprises a camera that sticks out above Harbisson’s head like an antenna, and a small computer chip that converts light to sound. . “I receive color through the bone, and I’m listening to you through the ears” Harbisson says.
- 16. Indeed, Harbisson’s eyeborg is catching the attention of some musicians and artists. The pianist Jools Holland, used a version of the device to accompany live concerts held in 2009–2010 across the U.K. “He likes to improvise, [so] we created a reverse system that would turn his music into colors and lights as he played.”
- 20. “People said that cities were gray— they’re not. They are actually extremely colorful. I’m discovering color in a different way.”
- 21. Encuentra las siguientes palabras en el texto. Identifica los afijos. 1) Realmente 2) Más fácil 3) Similitudes 4) Barato 5) Directamente 6) Involuntario 7) Definitivamente
- 23. How long did it take you to learn how to use it? What is it like? Your world must look very different. Tell me about your art So, what is the colour of Mozart? You create portraits too - how? Here at TED they called you a sonochromatic artist cyborg. What on earth is that?
- 24. Dinámica Buscar las palabras faltantes de cada pregunta en la sopa de letras y completar las preguntas, y dar respuesta a estas.
- 26. Dinámica ¿a qué te suenan las siguientes imágenes???
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