"Radium" <glucegen at excite.com> wrote in message
news:pgpmoose.200309151057.15841 at net.bio.net...
> I have read about the neurophone which claims to produce auditory
> perception through nerve stimulation. Something to do with electric
> signals of certain frequencies being sensed as sound by the brain.
>> Science proves that temporal bone vibration can be used to cause
> auditory pseudohallucinations.
>> As far as direct electric nerve stimulation the only sound you could
> possibly hear is the frying of nerves and other tissues by the
> electrically-generated heat. Along with that maybe paralysis,
> numbness, and death. Music is totally out of the question.
You may be talking of cochlear implants. They have been available for
several years.
Information can be found on
http://www.utdallas.edu/~loizou/cimplants/tutorial/
best regards
Peter
