Thursday, October 13, 2016

Smart Vest It Might Deaf 'Hear' Through Skin

Experts from Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman develop smart vest that could make the deaf hear. Instead of going through the senses of hearing, deaf possible to 'hear' through the skin.

In other words, do not try to replace the senses Eagleman missing but pointed to other senses. Using the same principle, he adds another channel for sensory perception and reality expanding the sense of hearing.

"The brain does not know and does not care where he got the data. Your ears may be a microphone, digital camera of your eyes, and the brain interprets these signals will remain," he said.

Audio sensory substitution and that he developed in a joint project Novich Scott graduate students and students of Rice University. Project aka vest vest was named VEST, an acronym of Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer.

How it works, the sound will be captured by a microphone embedded in devices such as a tablet or smart phone. The sound was then compressed through the application of computing into the data transmitted to the vest via bluetooth.

Vests will translate the data into a series of different vibrating patterns based on the frequency of the sound source. With some training, the deaf who wear them will understand the world through the sonic sensation of touch.

VEST project is still ongoing, but so far have shown promising results. A deaf 37-year-old who wears has managed to translate the buzz back into words in only four days of training.

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