Dr. David Eagleman

Hey, Claude.

And you get the answer.

Wow, what a great opportunity for kids growing up.

Oh, sure.

Everything I fix, I learn how to do it on YouTube first, yeah.

Very cool.

Now I'm using AI to do it.

I've got this lighting thing and I couldn't figure out.

So I took pictures and I said, what am I looking at here and where's the box and the transformer or whatever?

And it was pretty good at telling me what to do next.

Yeah.

Neosensory, I actually sold six months ago, so I don't have it anymore.

So I just got really interested in this topic about pushing information into the brain via unusual sensory channels.

So, for example, as you referenced, I built a wristband that captures sound and turns sound into patterns of vibration on the skin.

This is for people who are deaf.

And deaf people could learn how to hear that way.

Why?

Because this is the same thing that your inner ear, your cochlea does.

It's just capturing vibrations on the eardrum and breaking that up into different frequencies, shipping that off to the brain in terms of spikes, just these voltage spikes along nerves.

We're doing the same thing except we're pushing it in through the skin, it goes up the spinal cord to a different part of the brain, but the brain can figure that out.