Tue, 21-Oct-2025

‘Cyborg’ artist who ‘hears’ colour turns to time travel

Cyborg

MATARÓ, Spain, Dec 20, 2021 (AFP) – For Neil Harbisson, a self-described “cyborg” artist living near Barcelona, colour is quite literally music to his ears thanks to an antenna he designed to overcome colour blindness. Well-known in Spain and with an international following that enabled him to meet the likes of Leonardo di Caprio and Tom … Read more

A new thermometer who can measures temperature with sound

University of Pittsburgh

A new device eavesdrops on objects to take their temperatures. Hot objects not only glow, but also softly hum. The hum is generated by the rapid jitters of particles that make up the hot object. If human ears were keen enough to hear this noise, “it would sound like radio static,” says Tom Purdy of … Read more