When Neil Harbisson gets out of a car, the antenna coming out of his head sometimes gets stuck in branches. It's one of the things he had to get used to when he became a cyborg.
Protruding from the back of Harbisson's skull is a metal antenna that allows him to convert the frequencies for color into frequencies for sound and vice versa. He was born colorblind and the appendage has essentially given him a sixth sense to make up for what his vision lacks.
Six obstacles to being a cyborg - Jul. 31, 2014
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