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the eyeborg
The Cyborg Foundation is a nonprofit organization created in 2010 by cyborg activist and artist Neil Harbisson and his long-time partner, choreographer Moon Ribas. The foundation is an institution for the research, creation and promotion of projects related to extending and creating new senses and perceptions by applying technology to the human body. The Cyborg Foundation is housed in Tecnocampus Mataro (Barcelona) and collaborates with several institutions, universities and research centers around the world.
The mission of the foundation is to help humans become cyborgs, to promote the use of cybernetics as part of the human body and to defend cyborg rights. The foundation believes that eyeborgs and any other cybernetic extensions should be treated as body parts, not as devices, and therefore should never be sold but donated.
Harbisson states that the foundation does not intend to repair people's senses, the foundation makes no difference between people with disabilities and people with no disabilities as he believes we are all in need to extend our senses and perception: "We are all disabled when we compare ourselves with other species, a dog for instance can hear and smell much more than any of us" Harbisson has donated eyeborgs to blind communities and has taught colour to blind children to help them develop the sense of colour.
[video=vimeo;51920182]http://vimeo.com/51920182[/video]
The Cyborg Foundation is a nonprofit organization created in 2010 by cyborg activist and artist Neil Harbisson and his long-time partner, choreographer Moon Ribas. The foundation is an institution for the research, creation and promotion of projects related to extending and creating new senses and perceptions by applying technology to the human body. The Cyborg Foundation is housed in Tecnocampus Mataro (Barcelona) and collaborates with several institutions, universities and research centers around the world.
The mission of the foundation is to help humans become cyborgs, to promote the use of cybernetics as part of the human body and to defend cyborg rights. The foundation believes that eyeborgs and any other cybernetic extensions should be treated as body parts, not as devices, and therefore should never be sold but donated.
Harbisson states that the foundation does not intend to repair people's senses, the foundation makes no difference between people with disabilities and people with no disabilities as he believes we are all in need to extend our senses and perception: "We are all disabled when we compare ourselves with other species, a dog for instance can hear and smell much more than any of us" Harbisson has donated eyeborgs to blind communities and has taught colour to blind children to help them develop the sense of colour.
[video=vimeo;51920182]http://vimeo.com/51920182[/video]