Human freedom is something HART fundamentally believes in. Throughout history, technological and cultural progress has freed up the human experience. We now have information at our fingertips and are free to express ourselves the way we want. However, the way in which we experience the world is still limited by the sensory receptors given to us at birth. HART envisions a future where the constraints of human biology dissolve, and new ways of experiencing the world arise by giving people freedom of experience.

HART’s first long term goal is tech-related - a platform that shows the possibility of human augmentation with some examples of applications while allowing others to build their own. Imagine a platform like the App Store, but instead of apps, anyone can download new senses for their haptic devices. The second goal is to raise awareness of the subject of human augmentation and bring it into the domain of public conversation. Since HART has won the TU/e contest, we now know the world is ready for and excited about our vision for the future!