14/04/2015
Wonderful to see these concepts developing.
Rice students and their mentors are creating a vest that allows the profoundly deaf to "feel" and understand speech. Under the direction of neuroscientist David Eagleman, students are refining a vest with dozens of embedded actuators that vibrate in specific patterns to represent words. The vest responds to input from a phone or tablet app that isolates speech from ambient sound. Read more about it here: http://news.rice.edu/?p=73904
