Ever thought of being able to hear through your back?

I just spotted this really cool stuff that I think I would love to share with you.  Neuroscientist, David Eagleman, during his talk at TED 2015, told the world about the project that he is working on with his grad student, Scott Novich, on a device that enables deaf people to hear without the need for the all-expensive cochlear transplant surgery. He says his device, versatile extra-sensory transducer (a.k.a. V.E.S.T.) is able to assign meaning to vibration patterns, convert sound frequencies into vibrations through a mobile device and a little piece of computational design.
He says "It sounds crazy that you could ever see through your tongue or hear through your torso, but that's all vision or hearing ever is. It's just electrical signals in the brain; the brain doesn't care how it gets them."
To find out more about this device, read this TED article on his creation of the V.E.S.T.
I hope it excites you almost as much as it excites me.