This man's story is so amazing and inspiring. And it shows how man made machines can be integrated into our bodies to overcome disability or limitation.
+RUclips Comments Suck I think it might be better categorized if you said, he created his own version of the ability, and you gave it a different name, but he deserves to do that in my opinion. Him and whoever helped him should decide.
+RUclips Comments Suck I kept waiting for him to say that word, and also wondering if my synesthesia would produce the same colors as he was "hearing". For instance, Beethoven's Ode to Joy is a rather dull orange to me,, HTML code #FFAD0F.
WOW! This is absolutely amazing! I really wish I could meet this man in person! His story is incredible and very inspiring. I only wonder what Skrillex looks like! 😆
it of course may sound scary to add electronics to your body but to anyone without the same capabilities as any other ''normal'' person it sounds amazing and in a way it is. science helping peoples 'inabilities'.
It's interesting that although I don't have anything stuck in my brain the notes he attributes to colors are almost all the same as the colors and shapes I mentally 'see' when I hear sound.. I wonder if it's the same for other people..
Why didnt they just send the color signal directly to his brain along his retinal nerve, why was the signal converted to sound first? it would have been much less complicated
+Dong-hyeon Kim In "Island of the Colorblind" (watch?v=CM06G26X-rQ) a man with achromatopsia says "when I describe my condition, I usually say that I see everything in grey. But it would be just as accurate to say that I see everything in yellow."
Mmm. If I were to extend my senses, maybe I could add an electromagnetic compass to my body, or a gps locator, so that I could tell by feel exactly where I am in the world. It might take a while to learn, but eventually I could tell that I am here, and the nearest road, by pure feel, is 5 miles NorthEast. :D
Kind of weird. I'm okay with the fact that his device helped him ''see'' colors, but don't quite like the fact that he encourages all people, people without special needs,to add electronic devices to their bodies or as he says, to become ''cyborgs''. Sounds a bit scary I think.Keep on developing technology,but leave nature beautiful as it is.Got to have harmony between those two things.However, as a musician,I was very fascinated with his systems approach,turning sound frequencies into color. :)
+wma That type of color correction only works for very specific types of of color blindness. This method relies on color filtering, allowing the brain to differentiate between the filtered colors better than it can the non-filtered colors. However, to someone like him with full colorblindness, this means nothing -- as he still simply cannot perceive the colors. Things would probably just look darker to him.
+Ryan Barnhart i think he meant the green/red glasses. They should work in a way, because red objects reflect only red light, through the green filter, it would be dark, through the red filter it would be unchanged. Since both eyes are seeing something different for red and green, he should be able to "perceive" those colors in some way after a while.
Thimo Wellner but that doesn't work for his type of colorblindness. All that does is allow for one eye to see red and one eye to see green, but neither of his eyes can see red OR green. There would be no change, except one eye seeing the world slightly darker.
Oh i think you underestimate what the human brain is capable of. He would be able to determine something green (with one eye) and something red (with the other), I'm quite sure, it'll become a sense after a while. There's people who can (from being fully blind) now "see" a 128x128 black and white picture image through a camera that is attached to a chip on their tongue that gives out little electronic impulses (also on 128x128). They describe it as a real sense and "seeing".
+Prog47 I would assume if you had a mechanical implant in your head, you too might wish to cover its point of attachment, and protrusion for aesthetic reasons. As he says his audible method is bone conduction, rather than direct to his ears, it's likely he may have several points at his skull which are implanted with those bone-conduction speakers. - just because he's found an interesting way to cope with a deficiency, does not mean he doesn't want to at least try to fit in... and for all we know it could be a wig. - but i agree, it probably sounds delightful.
+Silentsouls I'm not sure those would help him. There are several different types of colour bindness and Enchroma only helps in specific cases. If you are a normal colour seeing person, you have three types of cone receptor cells on your retina; one for red, one for green, and one for blue light. Some people only have two types of cones and simply cannot see a particular colour. No amount of optics is going to fix that. Some people have perfectly normal cones, but the part of their brain that is supposed to process the data doesn't work properly, or the optical nerve that sends the signal to the brain is damaged. Enchroma glasses can't help there either. In the most common cases of colour blindness, the problem is that one of the cones is twisted and picks up two signals. For example, the red cone receptors are triggered nearly as much by green light as by red light. The Enchroma glasses rebalance the light levels to fix this problem.
yes yes very nice, but when you put off those devices after some time it´s like loosing a sense, closing the eyes for example. Imagine if you had multiple devices and at one point there wouldn´t be enough electricity (emp whatever) - who know´s how degenerated your human body would be, if you could even defend yourself etc. so everybody would be a slave to the big companies who control the technology.
"Now I dress in a way that it sounds good"
I can't love this statement more
This man's story is so amazing and inspiring. And it shows how man made machines can be integrated into our bodies to overcome disability or limitation.
He induced synaesthesia!
+RUclips Comments Suck
Only if he induced it in you, but it's not clear that that's what you mean.
Otherwise, there's no way you could tell.
+RUclips Comments Suck I think it might be better categorized if you said, he created his own version of the ability, and you gave it a different name, but he deserves to do that in my opinion. Him and whoever helped him should decide.
+RUclips Comments Suck I kept waiting for him to say that word, and also wondering if my synesthesia would produce the same colors as he was "hearing". For instance, Beethoven's Ode to Joy is a rather dull orange to me,, HTML code #FFAD0F.
Wow, he is so fascinating and especial person.
What a great Ted, one of my favorites
We're already cyborgs...glasses, mobile phones, computers, ear buds, watches etc. But each day we are are slowly becoming more of a cyborg.
Yep
I can't wait to hear my food
screaming in fear
One of the coolest Ted talks!
WOW! This is absolutely amazing! I really wish I could meet this man in person! His story is incredible and very inspiring. I only wonder what Skrillex looks like! 😆
now that I use glasses i started to dream with glasses on, does it make me a cyborg too?
absolutely fascinating, needs more views!
Is it weird that I want this so bad. The ability to hear and inturn feel colors. Wow, I want to meet this man!
it of course may sound scary to add electronics to your body but to anyone without the same capabilities as any other ''normal'' person it sounds amazing and in a way it is. science helping peoples 'inabilities'.
being a cyborg sounds funny, but it also means your brain can be hacked..
+Alaska Woolf The only thing you can do if you hack the eye is send sounds to his brain , nothing more.
+Alaska Woolf Yep, we can already do it: they're called illusions :P
+Alaska Woolf Warning, Diarrhea.exe is a dangerous file!
+Alaska Woolf Who's to say a non-cyborg brain can't be hacked?
+TheBomber43000 lol Disease is pretty much biological hacking and it sucks. Good point
I found it very interesting the way his dreams changed to match his sensory perception.
If he got another camera he could hear colours in stereo.
Tapecutter59 lmao
Thats fuckin hilarious
its crazy how his paintings could have been the complete opposite if different sounds were chosen for colors
or if his perception of sound was different
This is so awesome.
Imagine changing the pitch/color synchronization in his computer chip. That'd freak him out.
Amazing, I love it when technology is being used for the betterment of humanity 😁⭐
6:58 LOL The varying expressions of the audience members
He's so cool
Has it changed his way of speaking? Does he now speak more colorfully?
6:59
I wonder what color that guy's snore is.
7:00 Is the man at the bottom right sleeping ?
Wow!
Indeed!
:)
The Rachmoninoff dinner sounds great..
How about Liszt spaghetti
that was awesome
The sound face thingy was creepy I was like Daniel damnit you even sound like a wizard
If he isn't a perfect candidate for Google Glass, I don't know who is.
amazing... and so using coloured lenses could he alter the contrast between colours?
He is too amazing for reality
It's interesting that although I don't have anything stuck in my brain the notes he attributes to colors are almost all the same as the colors and shapes I mentally 'see' when I hear sound.. I wonder if it's the same for other people..
He is humanitys next super villain
this is motherfucking amazing, man!
and i have to take my glasses off everytime i take pics for documents...
he cant see color but his clothes are on POINT!
I would like to hear what I look like and look at what I sound like.
Cociane is a hell of a drug
Maybe he could also extend his senses to hear people thought, which are just minute electric impulses in our brain
Can any synesthetes out there relate to the sound/colour tones?
Why didnt they just send the color signal directly to his brain along his retinal nerve, why was the signal converted to sound first? it would have been much less complicated
... how does he know that he sees gray world?
+Dong-hyeon Kim In "Island of the Colorblind" (watch?v=CM06G26X-rQ) a man with achromatopsia says "when I describe my condition, I usually say that I see everything in grey. But it would be just as accurate to say that I see everything in yellow."
Mmm. If I were to extend my senses, maybe I could add an electromagnetic compass to my body, or a gps locator, so that I could tell by feel exactly where I am in the world. It might take a while to learn, but eventually I could tell that I am here, and the nearest road, by pure feel, is 5 miles NorthEast. :D
Kind of weird. I'm okay with the fact that his device helped him ''see'' colors, but don't quite like the fact that he encourages all people, people without special needs,to add electronic devices to their bodies or as he says, to become ''cyborgs''. Sounds a bit scary I think.Keep on developing technology,but leave nature beautiful as it is.Got to have harmony between those two things.However, as a musician,I was very fascinated with his systems approach,turning sound frequencies into color. :)
6:59 lol those KO'd people
good example of how the brain works
At some point, hopefully.
why didn't they just gave him 3d glasses (old fashion ones) he would had seen in color. (even though hearing colors sound very interesting)
+wma That type of color correction only works for very specific types of of color blindness. This method relies on color filtering, allowing the brain to differentiate between the filtered colors better than it can the non-filtered colors. However, to someone like him with full colorblindness, this means nothing -- as he still simply cannot perceive the colors. Things would probably just look darker to him.
+Ryan Barnhart i think he meant the green/red glasses. They should work in a way, because red objects reflect only red light, through the green filter, it would be dark, through the red filter it would be unchanged. Since both eyes are seeing something different for red and green, he should be able to "perceive" those colors in some way after a while.
Thimo Wellner but that doesn't work for his type of colorblindness. All that does is allow for one eye to see red and one eye to see green, but neither of his eyes can see red OR green. There would be no change, except one eye seeing the world slightly darker.
Oh i think you underestimate what the human brain is capable of. He would be able to determine something green (with one eye) and something red (with the other), I'm quite sure, it'll become a sense after a while.
There's people who can (from being fully blind) now "see" a 128x128 black and white picture image through a camera that is attached to a chip on their tongue that gives out little electronic impulses (also on 128x128). They describe it as a real sense and "seeing".
THATS COOL.... but at the same time the idea of it is scaary
Catharsis.. Is this where the idea came from 😂
I want extra senses to detect feel and read people brain wave using sound :D
If he is really running around with this thing he has probably gone crazy by now...
what is up with the haircut dude?
+Prog47 It might not look nice but I bet it sounds nice
+Prog47 It's to distract people from the the bad color selections in his wardrobe.
+Prog47 I would assume if you had a mechanical implant in your head, you too might wish to cover its point of attachment, and protrusion for aesthetic reasons. As he says his audible method is bone conduction, rather than direct to his ears, it's likely he may have several points at his skull which are implanted with those bone-conduction speakers. - just because he's found an interesting way to cope with a deficiency, does not mean he doesn't want to at least try to fit in... and for all we know it could be a wig. - but i agree, it probably sounds delightful.
This is real TRANSHUMANISM
It sounds awfully complicated to me.
and all that for what?
see infrated and UV ? fuck yeah i want that. but as real colors not sounds
00:17 ya, I can tell you're color blind
I wonder if he got the enchroma glasses. and acually sees color now.
+Silentsouls I'm not sure those would help him. There are several different types of colour bindness and Enchroma only helps in specific cases.
If you are a normal colour seeing person, you have three types of cone receptor cells on your retina; one for red, one for green, and one for blue light. Some people only have two types of cones and simply cannot see a particular colour. No amount of optics is going to fix that. Some people have perfectly normal cones, but the part of their brain that is supposed to process the data doesn't work properly, or the optical nerve that sends the signal to the brain is damaged. Enchroma glasses can't help there either. In the most common cases of colour blindness, the problem is that one of the cones is twisted and picks up two signals. For example, the red cone receptors are triggered nearly as much by green light as by red light. The Enchroma glasses rebalance the light levels to fix this problem.
I'm boycotting any restaurant with Justin Bieber salads.
Comments just gave me cancer
THE CYBERMEN ARE COMING!! Run for your lives! Where is the Doctor when you need him??
errrr
6:54 My mom always Said that Justin Bieber was for girls and i didnt listen to her... so... i was wrong
yes yes very nice, but when you put off those devices after some time it´s like loosing a sense, closing the eyes for example. Imagine if you had multiple devices and at one point there wouldn´t be enough electricity (emp whatever) - who know´s how degenerated your human body would be, if you could even defend yourself etc. so everybody would be a slave to the big companies who control the technology.
Considering some people's bodies already can't support a full functioning system