Monday, 1 April 2013

Upgrade your ears: Elective auditory implants give you cyborg hearing

Cochlear implant
Cochlear implants have successfully restored hearing to thousands of deaf individuals. With advances in microelectronics, their footprint has steadily shrunk to the point where a fully implantable hearing device is now a reality -- the microphone can even be put under the skin. As the technological limitations of these devices evolve into socio-economic limitations, a new question arises: what if you don?t have to lose your hearing to get an implant?
crawled from : Extremetech

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