neil harbison is as he says the world's first officially recognized cyborg the composer has been color blind since birth he sees the world in shades of gray. so the dollar has its own light frequency which corresponds to a sound frequency and so the out that allows me to hear the sound of each car there . is a so each color has its own note so when i put colors on is of paper to me it's like with the music on paper. in two thousand and four neal harbison had the antenna implanted by a surgeon who doesn't wish to be identified it contains a sensor that recognizes color frequencies and transmits them to a chip in the back of his head this chip turns them into audio signals.