Eagleman just launched Kickstarter campaign for VEST, the Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer -- a wearable device that, for starters, could help the deaf to hear.And potentially it could do a lot ...

The Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer, or VEST, has 32 vibrating motors distributed around the torso. Neosensory. David Eagleman thinks there should be more to human sensory perception than sight ...

Using the sense of touch to replace the sense of hearing sounds like science fiction, but it’s very much a reality and it could be a game-changer for the profoundly deaf.

Eagleman introduced VEST - Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer - to the world at a TED Conference talk in March. He is director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of ...

David Eagleman's résumé is deep but our latest BioFlash episode shows he's particularly excited about a device that could train the brain to see, hear and do so much more.

Back in 2015, Neuroscientist David Eagleman gave a TED talk about the potential to expand and create new senses. He showed off a haptic vest prototype that could translate audio input into an ...

Scott Novich and David Eagleman, neuroscientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, are developing a device that relies on sensory substitution, which involves feeding information ...

Using the sense of touch to replace the sense of hearing sounds like science fiction, but it's very much a reality and it could be a game-changer for the profoundly deaf.

As a kid growing up in New Mexico, Stanford University neuroscientist David Eagleman, PhD, suffered a bad fall from a roof. Something about how time seemed to stand still during his descent ...

A vest that allows the profoundly deaf to “feel” and understand speech is under development by engineering students and their mentors at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine. Under ...

Technology experts are tapping into sensory substitution for the Versatile Extra Sensory Transducer (VEST), a project now on Kickstarter that could soon be helping the deaf to experience sound in a… ...

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 ...