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Hacking Our Senses Will Transform How We Experience the World

04-Oct-2016

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Advances in neuroscience and technology may soon give us more than 5 senses.

Bach-y-Rita: “We don’t see with our eyes. We see with our brains”

vOICe smart glasses convert video into pitch and volume of sound.

Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer (VEST) converts noises into vibrations.

Colour blind artist and “cyborg” Neil Harbisson has an antenna in his skull which allows him to perceive infrared and ultraviolet.

Grindhouse Wetwares have experimented with magnets implanted in the finger and range-finding sensors.

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David Eagleman

Neuroscientist, Author, Technologist, Entrepreneur.

Duke University

Private research university in Durham, North Carolina

Kevin Warwick

Emeritus Professor at Coventry University and University of Reading.

Neil Harbisson

Cyborg artist with antenna implanted to hear colors and space

Peter Meijer

Data scientist, algorithm designer and image processing specialist

The University of Tokyo

Public research university.

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Augmentation