Harbisson was born with achromatopsia, a rare disorder that affects one in 33,000 people. He was raised in Barcelona and is color blind.
That indicates he sees in only black, white, and various degrees of grey, or what he refers to as “greyscale”.
However, in 2004 he made the decision to have surgery that altered both his life and his senses by putting an antenna to the back of his skull that converts light waves into sound.
Film director Carey Born was “gobsmacked and astonished” to learn that Harbisson was “the first officially recognised ‘cyborg,'” according to Guinness World Records.
Her plan was to meet with him and then produce a movie.
It looks at his coping mechanisms as well as the results and ramifications of his unique surgical operation.
“The reason he did it was not to substitute the sense that he was lacking—it was in order to create an enhancement,” Born told the news.
When Harbisson was a student, he had met Adam Montandon, a cybernetics expert from Plymouth University, who had given him the ability to “hear” color using a laptop, webcam, and headphones, which converted light waves into sounds.
