Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think

736.173 - 759.586 David Eagleman

So we're just transferring the inner ear to the skin of the torso, and it worked. People who are deaf could come to hear the world that way. So I spun this out of my lab as a company, Neosensory, and we shrunk the vest down to a wristband, and we're on wrists of deaf people all over the world. The other alternative for somebody who's deaf is a cochlear implant, an invasive surgery.