Who needs miracles when you have science?
Sarah Churman has been deaf all of her life, but no longer. Recently she was given an Esteem implant, created by Envoy Medical. The device, planted in her inner ear, converts sound vibrations into electrical stimuli capable of being deciphered by her brain.
Her husband recorded Sarah’s first reactions with the device and posted it on YouTube.
Go Science!
(source: CNET, Technically Incorrect )
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Tabby Lavalamp
October 1, 2011 at 15:54 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
As usual with YouTube, if you want to keep the happy feeling from watching the video, don’t read the comments.
Monimonika
October 1, 2011 at 17:13 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I went ahead and started reading the comments. I stopped once I saw the that conversation had steered toward whether God should be the one getting all the (good) credit.
wilsim
October 1, 2011 at 19:14 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Me too, except i took the time to thumbs up a couple comments before i tucked my tail.
Assassin Actual
October 2, 2011 at 04:35 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Internet comments always make me loose faith in my fellow humans….except you guys on FTB of course, thats the type of insanity I can get behind.
chigau ()
October 1, 2011 at 19:05 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Lovely!
F
October 2, 2011 at 00:13 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yeah, that’s sweet!
I do believe I’ve seen clips of other people either hearing for the first time, or after having lost their hearing in their deep past. Now I want to try and find them.
jamessweet
October 3, 2011 at 18:18 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s beautiful, but I have a question:
When the woman turning on the implant asks “Can you hear me?”, it looks like the formerly-deaf woman has her eyes covered, but she nods and apparently understands. If she has never heard anything before, how is she able to understand?
Maybe she didn’t have her eyes covered and she was lip-reading? Or maybe she was not fully deaf? Or maybe there’s something else I’m just not thinking of?