Look after your ear

2010 POPSCI- INVENTION AWARD

Hearing repaired, a device that restores hearing by transmitting sound through the teeth and bones. Patients don't even notice they're wearing it.

How it works?
A microphone in the deaf ear beams incoming sound to a receiver on the acrylic tooth insert (placed on either side), which transmit it through the jaw to the cochlea..However, this invention is much more complicated than the system given by God(:


Invention: Soundbite
Inventor: Amir Abolfathi
Cost: $19 million
Time: 4 years
Horizon: Prototype-0-0-Product