SENSORY NEWS REPORT

“Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman invented the Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer (VEST), a wearable tactile display that translates myriad kinds of information, from speech to sounds to digital data, into patterns of vibrations on the skin. The device was inspired by Eagleman’s study of synesthesia, the fascinating neurological phenomenon whereby stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers another sensory pathway.”

— Pescovitz, D. (2018) Digital synesthesia

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“With his Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer, or VEST, neuroscientist David Eagleman hopes to do more than teach deaf people to learn how to feel sounds through vibrations. CNN’s Rachel Crane reports.”

CNN (2015) Gain a sixth sense with this vibrating vest. Retrieved from Youtube, https://youtu.be/0KzB-GYIKsk.

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Digital synesthesia


https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/ywxvxx/how-to-enjoy-food-when-you-cant-smell-anything

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