Imagine if you couldn't hear with your ears but could through your skin. Well, Dr Scott Novich and Dr David Eagleman of NeoSensory set out to achieve just that and their Versatile Extra-Sensory ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An experimental vest could be a game-changer for the profoundly deaf as it allows them to "feel" speech. The VEST, which stands for versatile extra-sensory transducer, uses an ...

We’ve seen some pretty crazy Kickstarter campaigns in our day, but even so, this might be one of the most far-out projects we’ve ever laid eyes on. Dr. David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Baylor ...

Using the sense of touch to replace the sense of hearing may seem like science fiction, but it's very much a reality and it could be a game-changer for people who are deaf. It started out as the ...

When we think about gadgets to aid the hearing impaired, cochlear implants usually come to mind -- but these devices are expensive and require invasive surgery. Neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman and ...

WASHINGTON — A new wearable device that translates spoken words into vibrations could help deaf people perceive speech in a completely new way. There are about 2 million functionally deaf people in ...