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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Scott Novich and David Eagleman. The Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer (VEST) is outfitted with an array of motors that vibrate when a microphone picks up sound from its surroundings.

So Eagleman, along with Scott Novich, his then-grad student at Baylor College of Medicine, created the Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer, or VEST. The VEST system is worn like it sounds.

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 ...

Dr. David Eagleman, a neuroscientist and adjunct professor at Stanford University, spent the last few years developing a life-changing vest that would enable people who are deaf to understand the ...

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.

The most striking statement made by David Eagleman during our recent conversation is almost the first thing he said, that we still don't have a good definition of one of the defining attributes of ...