A colorblind artist, who has used a device that convert colors to sound, is planning to have a surgery that will fuse his listening device to his skull.
Neil Harbisson, 29, has worn a special head-mounted sensor almost for a dacade, but now he has decided to have it surgically implanted this fall.
"Mr. Harbisson's current eyeborg is pressed against the base of his head with extremely high pressure, which allows the sounds to reverberate along his skull to his eardrums," Jennifer Lee said, writing for the New York Times.
"But his new eyeborg, to be implanted in September, will be connected to his body through three screws in his head - two to support the antenna and electronic chip, and a third for the sound to be passed into his skull, which will vibrate with the sound. He expects it will take about two months for the bone to heal around the implant," Lee added.
Harbisson was born without ability to perceive colors, with a rare condition called "achromatopsia". Eight years ago, he developed the device to distinguish the color right in front of him.
It wasn't easy for the European artist to find the surgical team when he decided to have the unusual surgery. Most doctors he approached thought he was joking. But he was able to persuade doctors at the Trias i Pujol hospital outside Barcelona to confirm the operation for this fall.
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