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From the Vault: The Livewired Brain with David Eagleman

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Sensory Substitution for Deaf People

Robotic wristbands allow people with hearing loss to pick up on auditory world through their skin. The inner ear is just registering vibrations of your ear drum, and it breaks sound up into from high to low frequency. And all we're doing is transferring the inner ear to to the wrist, and it works. We have been on the since march, and we're now on wrists all round the world.

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