Born in Northern Ireland with achromatopsia, a rare condition meaning he can only see in greyscale, Harbisson moved to Barcelona as a child and grew up obsessed with color and things he couldn't sense.

Harbisson 出生于北爱尔兰， 患有全盲，这是一种罕见的疾病， 这意着只能看到灰度图像，Harbisson 小时候搬到巴塞罗那， 从小就痴迷于颜无法感知的事物。