Sign on the back of a vehicle pleading for someone to donate a kidney to a sick man in Mississauga, ... [ ] Ontario, Canada. In March 2020, there were more than 110,000 people on the national transplant waiting list. According to the U.S. Government Information on Organ Donation and Transplantation, 20 people die every day while waiting for an organ donor transplant. And every nine minutes, someone is added to the national transplant list. In 2019, 39,718 transplant operations were performed, which was a record high for the seventh consecutive year.

Artist Neil Harbisson wears an antenna that allows him to "hear" color through vibrations in his skull. From prosthetics to pharmaceuticals, humans have been using technology to alter their physical and mental capabilities for thousands of years. Now, with our rapid advances in technology, some people are embracing human augmentation as a means of expressing themselves and experiencing the world in a totally different way. Neil Harbisson, 33, is one of these people. The artist was born with achromatopsia, or complete color-blindness.