'I hear colour' says colour blind artist with antenna attached to his skull

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Find out why Neil Harbisson had an antenna implanted into his skull. Neil Harbisson was colour blind until an antenna was attached to his skull - now he can "hear" colours represented by musical notes. **This video features flickering images and high pitched tone.**
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[@BuckyOhYeah]

For all others wondering: He's had a very simple contraption attached under his skull. This mechanism vibrates at different frequencies dependent on the color detected. It doesn't allow him to hear colors anymore than I'm able to hear taste... Just that it creates a sound... This said, achromatopsia isn't something I've seen approached in this way... and frankly, I would advocate this approach using the trusty phone camera with headphone sub/super frequencies

[@memd777]

I think his device already requires a smart phone to be in his pocket. I don't think it is possible technically that this device is performing independently. It is just serving as a camera and earphones, for processing, a processor is required, which I highly doubt it has. I am 100% sure there is a lag between his "hearing" and camera "seeing" as well. Whether he is paying a monthly fee for this still needs to be figured out.

[@God-T]

you could play dumb and dumber, Perfect Role for him 😂🤣🤣 ahaha

[@codyl5383]

"It doesnt allow him to hear color... Just that it creates sound" I get what you mean but when you say it that way it makes no sense

[@BuckyOhYeah]

@@codyl5383 well, I said "a" sound.. inferring it makes a sound for a colour... but sure, it could have been worded more clearly! :)

[@kevmc209]

Just destroyed racism.... We're all orange

[@janmakoli6380]

@@TigerSiChengWang-cb5ql God created us all as Orange 🍊

[@Win090949]

@@janmakoli6380 I colored humans orange as kids

[@God-T]

no, that's incorrect, your perception does not relate to everyone else that's what we call an oxymoron

[@frisky_dart7273]

We all look like Trump…

[@PlusTheSkim]

This guy is unbelievable. Love this

[@God-T]

only he knows the color 😂

[@grizzldrizzl3147]

Imagine sleeping with this on on a coloured bedsheet

[@gabrielf111]

Oh- oh no.

[@Leonschaos]

Ouch, I just imagine someone yanking on his antenna.

[@3679god]

IF THIS WOULD BE REAL HE HAD A NONSTOP MAJOR INFECTION. THIS IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT I CANT BELIVE NOONE DEBUNKEED THAT GUY.

[@sksksksksksk8539]

@@3679god it's BBC news

[@HipProGamer]

@@3679god he is legally recognized as a cyborg by the government. It's not fake

[@HipProGamer]

@@sksksksksksk8539 he is legally recognized as a cyborg by the government. It's not fake

[@sksksksksksk8539]

@@HipProGamer didn't say it was fake

[@TheWackoGreenAlien]

He literally gave himself synesthesia

[@kingc7959]

The Wacko Green Alien 1212 what's that

[@porothashawarma2339]

Without even actually seeing the coloured itself.

[@alejrandom6592]

@@kingc7959 google

[@alejrandom6592]

@*Green Fingered & Blue Thumbed* 👍🍄🌵🌱 wdym

[@alejrandom6592]

@*Green Fingered & Blue Thumbed* 👍🍄🌵🌱 no u r bot

[@arjunkr3924]

He can say what colour is infront of him with his eyes closed. Wow

[@jonassal2676]

That never happened in the video

[@olivervoss3196]

@@jonassal2676 doesn't have to happen to know it

[@Kaledrone]

Oliver sounds like the type of person who'd believe anything

[@vatovegan7164]

To see that each color is assigned a musical note is just amazing. We all live in a world where our frequency is so very important to our lives.

[@cv2594]

I heard color and felt the vibrations once when i was on a crazy psychedelic. I never heard of anybody else doing this till now. Trippy

[@remasteredvanity]

@Pud Pete in my opinion psychedelics rlly do connect you to something omnipotent and massive. especially shrooms. you’d have to do em to understand.

[@cmen6895]

@@remasteredvanity Yup

[@dragoncubes1074]

@Pud Pete Look up synesthesia. My dad had it. He could see sound in the form of colors. The brain sometimes overlaps the senses.

[@jordanpatterson237]

​@Pud Pete spirituality is not religion

[@gabrielf111]

I'm just wondering though... wouldn't it at least at some point become annoying to constantly hear the tones? Like let's say he's trying to read or focus on something- wouldn't the constant sound make it harder?

[@randomsliceofcakeofficial]

He probably is used to it

[@musicexperiments8515]

It never stops. The ringing in his head.

[@MannyMarvelous]

"prince charles face was almost a harmonious C maj"... Editor adds a horrid dissonance to a close up portrait of prince charles.

[@jamaliettetuiletufuga5909]

This guy is amazing. Someone should really make a movie about him

[@illivanilli364]

We have enough movies about delusional outcasts. This guy is a robot larper who’s whole shtick is “colors sound like this guys trust me bro”

[@livelyupmyself1]

@@illivanilli364 woke

[@adarshkochucamcolil7174]

His world is filled with music and this music brings joy

[@fatehahbenyamins7597]

335 people's comment

[@crustaceaninfiltration8146]

I just realised, he could make music by lining up colours in a row and walking passed them with the antenna on the colours.

[@DownBeatTime]

It's a human teletubbie? No noone?

[@kurtjoseph1]

+Max Hansen lol.

[@fukotuan508]

He is always surrounded by sounds wow... Is fascinating

[@Misfitxoxo]

3:45 hey ho. hey ho

[@kingc7959]

Misfit Massacre lol

[@14bqdonk]

😂😂😂

[@RanMC]

'We are all orange'

[@kingc7959]

Randey Blissveld (OLD CHANNEL) but but you look red

[@kingc7959]

No no no you look like a tomato so now your not man or women nor cyborg your sir are a TOMATO

[@Harlock2day]

speak for yourself ! 😂

[@CorneliusBogfrollupFitzgerald]

a color blind artist....that would be an excellent idea for a batman villain....oh wait...nevermind

[@eah811]

Where does this come from again?? Been googling for 20 minutes but i cant find or remeber this joke and is driving me crazy

[@CorneliusBogfrollupFitzgerald]

@@eah811 there was a silver age Batman villain who’s origin story is the toxic chemicals from his paint caused him to go color blind

[@user-ji5pl8qr9o]

I don't think anything is out of place at all. You to see and hear color the same as the rest of us who are synesthetic. What you go through in the visual world I go through silently. I dare not tell anyone anything about what I see and hear, I see sound and hear color in my minds eye and it's beautiful. I'm happy you have this device that allows you to see and hear a wonderful world we live in.

[@Billojava]

it's funny to see all the negative comments. This society needs to be more understanding and accepting. Cool the dude has a spectrometer attached to his skull, he's experiencing more than us.

[@DonaldHTyers]

This is NOT True ... I am a Nuclear Scientist and Colour does not give out an sound nor vibration ... This guy now wants to be called a Cyborg ... not a man nor a woman! That's what this is about.

[@kingc7959]

Like that cat

[@justinnuuroth957]

@@DonaldHTyers Sir, you are no Nuclear Scientist.

[@thiloj]

@G Wtf a spectrometer this small isn't even possible. Let alone the implantation into the brain would be impossible. Also, he would need to have perfect pitch.

[@maxtherulerrobloxian]

Donald H. Tyers yeah... im totally sure some dude on the internet is a nuclear scientist 😂😂 fuck outta here

[@karatebuff]

This is top draw, because he is interpreting things through vibrational frequency as is meant to be fascinating!!

[@Olhamo]

this must be exhausting... however, there must be a way to turn the device off, to get a break.

[@dodoismus369]

I don't think so. It's a new sense like any other for him.

[@bryndows]

This is absolutely fascinating, but I would go crazy with the sounds of color everywhere all the time. Especially infrared, there would just be permanent humming no?

[@combatwombat594]

My same thought. I think it would drive me mad to constantly have the humming of infrared in your ears

[@TJXD]

Well it's being in a state of acceptance and pure submission, I'm sure it's annoying sometimes but this is his life his determination lead him to do something he was born without it's absolutely beautiful and amazing

[@blueblood-_-]

I think he can switch the machine off.

[@bryndows]

@@blueblood-_- ah I did wonder. Thanks.

[@bryndows]

@@combatwombat594 I know it would just be full on 24/7 I personally would absolutely lose it because I value my peace so much!

[@amandaholland1968]

It's good to see you this is amazing

[@jeans.1328]

he should have added a laser pointer in order to target the area that the sensor is reading

[@tristanmahler4471]

This is awesome!

[@nahtek14]

Google glass looking fresh

[@AlexTube2006]

This is brilliant!! Amazing future ahead!!!

[@rob1973able]

Very interesting...wonder if he can shut it off tho...could be a curse as well...just hearing musical notes non stop..would drive someone insane

[@dodoismus369]

Nope, he cannot. And he even doesn't want to, because it's a new sense for him. You also cannot turn off your sight or hearing.

[@TrippaMazing87]

@@dodoismus369 he should’ve at least installed a switch

[@KnightsOfPopCorn]

Incredible!

[@johnc8209]

So basically it whispers colors into his ear

[@rainbowcarebear4530]

I can't believe that color has sound like he can hear it

[@chenhoward7807]

i imagine listening to music and classical music as a burst of color everywhere. what would be nice.

[@alejrandom6592]

that's psychedelia

[@sarcasm-83]

No his music is still just music... and his "colors" aren't actual colors, they are notes that have been assigned to represent colors so he can make the distinction, but he's not actually experiencing colors. Though sure, if he has associated every note for every different color, then basically every song has representations of colors... but... it's not like he's experiencing some "burst of color" in his brains. This thing is so exaggerated heh.

[@apathyguy8338]

You do know that's the opposite of this guy claim right? Also it will never play music it'll just be a hodgepodge of vibrations on the top of your skull oh boy how beautiful.

[@dragoncubes1074]

Look up synesthesia. My Dad saw colors that would swirl and move to music. Translucent, not solid. My sister said numbers and letters would suggest colors to her, but it didn't prevent her from reading or doing math.

[@Barkainian]

i see full color. one eye sees on a red/yellow scale and the other blue/green but my brain tends to make most of its thoughts memories and dreams in grey scale.

[@lemonman5937]

At 4:20 a kid does a thumbs up. I applaud him

[@tuber00009]

Legend.

[@dfernand101]

interesting bloke, saw him in Spanish newspaper website ElPais and it looked on the video like he wasn't dubbed and his Spanish was really good, I think he Spanish accent sounded like it was from Spain.

[@potita24]

+David Boris Fernandez He is British but raised in Spain that is why he speaks Spanish like a native

[@SierraKhaar]

Amazing.

[@cerebros3671]

so if someone were to tug on it...

[@tracerseven7564]

That's cool but can you turn the sound off?

[@S4NSE]

+Kieran Turner it's not sound, it's vibrations

[@kuro758]

@@S4NSE vibration=sound for brain

[@dodoismus369]

No, he can't.

[@jazminsz4637]

4:20 the badass kid at the background😂😂😂

[@grefur]

Why do you make negative comments for this? Do you want him to live with color blindness forever?

[@seydikoylu59]

He is from another dimension.

[@bnooie]

neil: In the twenty's more ppl will be wearing technology- me: **awkward inhale** well, so far....

[@riquess7377]

How is it so impossible

[@seekthetruth9490]

Everything is frequency, separation is an illusion we are all from the same pure, divine energy, everything is connected, we are all connected unconsciously, As above so below as within so without.

[@TrippaMazing87]

Idk why but this makes my palms hurt

[@oliverlezz]

1:54 i was following along with the notes until i heard his blue being written as a C... that is definitely a C#, violet is also D# and not D

[@remqc9663]

I've never seen something like this before

[@jeanethalcazar9229]

He's ahead of time , I'd say .

[@sarcasm-83]

No, no, for that he would've had to sow a clock under his scalp

[@terezacermanova7669]

If he tried to "hear" vantablack, would he hear silence?

[@syamimnijam4586]

he can hear frequencies other than visible light though

[@llwpeaches]

One of the most bad ass things I've ever seen.

[@alien-ann]

Him : everybody is just different shades of orange This man just cured racism

[@9804216]

so is this like constructed chromestasia which is one of the types of synesthesia?

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

he can hear colors and see souds 😮

[@GaryLiseo]

Now I want an MP3 of how I sound and wonder if his senses have connected in a manner to where he knows what color something is without going close to it.

[@lifechann]

Dude took color blindness too far

[@moai167]

2:00 blue is actually C# / Db and Violet is actually D# / Eb.

[@oliverlezz]

that's what i noticed too, it was a whole tone scale until the very last note being a half step above

[@rigelstarz6032]

wow and this was made 7 years ago

[@AlexSerrano-yb6dr]

It looks like it hurts

[@thesovietflaganthemguy2344]

Wouldn’t it make sense add a Camera to the antenna for blind people

[@taufanaugusta8884]

Hearing color, seeing sound.

[@mtburton909]

I'm protonopia colour blind but that is a unique way of thinking.

[@sefter454]

Looks a bit like penguin from Gotham

[@greengrowlocks566]

And why does it need to be attached to the skull? You could just have a phone app that converts colors to audible frequencies? Probably be more accurate than his device as wel..

[@APham-bd2ih]

this is so interesting and badass

[@juliantorres3833]

A. Pham that's exactly what I was gonna put. I'm gonna save up to build a new sense for myself now.

[@triplefurious618]

Are you an idiot

[@illivanilli364]

@@triplefurious618 They are. Imagine seeing a loon with a bowl cut and an antenna that looks like it was stolen off a fast food microphone and saying, “wow that is badass, this guy isn’t crazy at all”

[@illivanilli364]

@@juliantorres3833 love to see how this comment ages. Are you a Hurr durr badass robot now Jillian?

[@illivanilli364]

@*Green Fingered & Blue Thumbed* 👍🍄🌵🌱 honestly it’s probably just another sect of people rejecting reality and can play pretend android at home. I’d bet money this dude wasn’t even colorblind and used it as an excuse just to get an antenna.

[@atsuki7199]

Imagine him taking a shower

[@ev-0163]

dude built like an anglerfish

[@-_--kq8iu]

Perfect Pitch

[@wavecreatures]

Genius.

[@TheShadowcus]

Surely with having colour all around him, he would hear the vibrations constantly and thus be driven insane or something

[@TheShadowcus]

But I dont feel vibrations when i see colour....

[@downthegardenpath]

Imagine if you couldn't hear anything. Common sense would tell you that hearing constant background noise should drive you crazy, but it doesn't. We just accept it as normal. I'm sure to begin with it was very overwhelming just as it would be for a deaf person having a cochlear implant switched on.

[@illivanilli364]

He is clearly already insane….

[@dragoncubes1074]

You are bombarded by all forms of information, including touch, sound, sight, all the time. Why don't you feel your shoes on your feet unless you think about them? Why can you hold something but in a few minutes forget it's in your hand? Your brain has learned to only give your conscious mind information that it needs at that moment. When your have an itch, your hand will go to the itchy spot without even you being aware of it, and if you have an itch and immediately something more urgent happens, like you spill your coffee, the itch will be forgotten as you take care of the spill. This is something we learn as babies. Their brains are learning what's important and what to filter out.

[@xrrainx823]

*Wears Despacito*

[@blackburgundy1659]

6:00 this sound is so ominous, fitting of Charles😂😂

[@omartorres6949]

They do know our brains cant pick up vibrations but electrons

[@r3fl3xplays36]

How it works without battery?

[@dodoismus369]

Everyone has different preferences.

[@OhHenrie1]

A real life teletubbie

[@gamenmetalex8581]

I thought hè was a cyborg

[@istudy2muchlol]

How does he wear a helmet?

[@digital_nobody]

And I smell sounds. Found my nemesis. This battle will be epic.

[@lfcooker1001]

this is the dream of every producer to get perfect pitch lmao

[@TheWizardGamez]

What meds are u on? To stop your immune system from… know attacking the antenna

[@nafisidraque5137]

Who else is here from “daily dose of Internet” video ?

[@Max040fficial]

me :)

[@thedoublessymbol]

which video

[@zaktripper4908]

You can hear the shape of his hair by listening to Oliver Tree!

[@aCasaDaJurandir]

"Violet is the color of violence" Lana del Rey: I KNOW RIGHT

[@thewebmaster1]

This garden universe vibrates complete Some may get a sound so sweet Vibrations reach on up to become light And then through gamma, out of sight Between the eyes and ears there lie The sounds of color and the light of a sigh And to hear the sun, what a thing to believe But it's all around if we could but perceive To know ultra violet, infra-red and X-rays Beauty to find in so many ways Two notes of the chord, that's our full scope But to reach the chord is our life's hope And to name the chord is important to some So they give a word and the word is Om

[@MRBOOOYA]

Imagine having a antenna in your head to hear colors only to have someone make glasses that allows them to see colors

[@rinrin4711]

There are no such glasses. The ones you are provably talking about only correct colorblindness when people see some colors and don't see other.

[@thedoublessymbol]

there exists no glasses that allow the colorblind to be cured

[@crustaceaninfiltration8146]

That isn't how the glasses work, they don't let you see more colours, they just let you see more difference in the colours. This guy only sees grey scale, so colour blind glasses would do nothing at all.

[@geothikumar3145]

Wow

[@ForPropertyInvestors]

So why can't he do the same for smells?

[@ForPropertyInvestors]

I have been trying to interpret colours myself to try to develop a better way to understand music. My senses were telling me red was A, B purple, C yellow (sun), D , E, F green (forest), G (blue of sky), still working out any more, no minors or anything as yet. When he says red is quiet does that translate to the sound of playing A on a guitar? To me A on guitar sounds like a bright lively chord so I give it a red colour. I'm wandering if I should learn a new way such as more in relation to colour and scientific sounds waves!?

[@OTTFFSSENTE]

How.

[@crassidy7189]

This is cool but the sounds are too loud and it would be annoying to hear around continuously

[@vasuvardhan9861]

Oh so he is a robot weaker and complicated than a human...... Interesting!

[@privateuser8932]

Why weaker?

[@user-hv8uc5dv4r]

@@privateuser8932 i mean look at him

[@8hyacinth8]

It's so creepy...

[@jvb9553]

Makes one appreciate the profound sensitivity of actual organisms--how much they/we perceive. Odd that we have to go though a (rather crude) mechanism to experience color and sound, something that is innate to most of us. Kind of sad. Maybe the absurdity can wake us up?

[@Kyanzes]

He can tell without looking back when the copper hits the lighbridge lights. Although 95% of the time there would be a siren LOL

[@kingc7959]

6:55 so how does he have conversation people why do the people not yell at him there

[@kylehill9981]

this is the opposite of how synesthesia is for me, i see sound

[@vatovegan7164]

I see only sharp sounds. It's like a lighting bolt

[@illivanilli364]

@@vatovegan7164 actually you guys are both loons who will do anything to seem quirky and different. Such a sad life

[@doel89]

What If micro USB is no longer supported?

[@kaushikvedpathak5277]

But if he dont know what colour looks like how sound of colour going to make any sense. A sound RED is Black and white for his visual

[@nabihamoses4511]

Interesting.