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Reminds me of the scene in Mr. Holland's Opus where the title character rigs up a system of lights to operate with the band he's directing, so that his deaf son
by Spoom 9y ago
Reminds me of the scene in Mr. Holland's Opus where the title character rigs up a system of lights to operate with the band he's directing, so that his deaf son can "see" the music.
It makes me wonder if there is a way that we can convince the part of the brain that interprets sound to operate on signals from other senses, such that they can actually be heard by someone without working ears, like a controlled synesthesia. Way beyond my knowledge and I'm sure many smarter people have considered this in the past, so I'm sure there are reasons.
- saint_fiasco 9y agoThere is a device that connects a camera to some electrodes that are put in the mouth. This supposedly lets blind people see with their tongues. There is not a lot of bandwidth in the human mouth, so it's fairly low-definition, but it shows your idea is not far-fetched. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind-see-with-tongues/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind...