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HMC Entertainment Systems have invented a new device called the Eye-Borg that allows people with visual impairments and even total blindness to experience the world in colour. This system has the added effect of turning them into cyborgs, or, more accurately Eye-Borgs. The Eye-Borg project started when Adam Montandon gave a lecture on practical cyborg techniques and applications. He was approached by Neil Harbisson, a young student artist. Neil had a rare condition of achromatopsia (a rare hereditary vision disorder which affects 1 person in 33,000). One of the effects of...

The 8th Annual International Workshop on Presence will be held at University College London, September 21-23. The deadline for receipt of papers, short-papers, posters, panels, exhibition items is 6th June. Up to 20 papers will be published in a special issue of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (MIT Press). See http://www.temple.edu/ispr/conference/ for full details.