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One of the coolest non-neurotypical features you can have is synaesthesia, the ability to hear colors and taste sounds. Essentially, it's a condition where your sensorium swaps inputs around and gives you a strange and cool view of the world that's different from nearly everyone else's. Though synaesthesia is a rare ability, a researcher in California has discovered that more people have it in a mild form than anyone had ever realized. She devised a simple way to figure out if you are a synathaesthetic, by watching a screen saver with moving dots to see if they make you hear anything. Take the test at New Scientist, and find out if you are a non-neurotypical too. [New Scientist] More »
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You've probably heard about synaesthesia, the glamorous neurological condition in which people's senses get swapped so that they smell colors and feel words. Now a group of roboticists and bioengineers have got a working prototype of a little machine that gives you the synaesthetic ability to feel things you see. This tiny device attaches to your fingertip, using a camera to translate visual images into feelings by activating a little vibrator attached to the sensitive nerves in your finger. So you wave your hands around and "feel" objects across the street. More »
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