How Cool Is This?

[Carolina Husker]

[Panthro]

Nice. I was expecting someone to yell something like "Gorilla Semen Farts" in the back ground...I mean I was considering the source.

[boo7382]

Have you ever seen that True Life: Im Deaf?

There is a kid on there who gets the implant and hes like 16. When they turn it on, hes sitting next to his mom and she says his name and its the first time hes ever heard his name said out loud and he loves it.

He starts banging on the table and making sounds just b/c he can hear them, its SO cool.

[Kitten Diver]

If this thread doesn't make your day better, than you suck.

Can these implants fix all deaf people?

[TheRealDeal]

This is one of the most gangster things I've ever seen.

My buddies dad started a company called Advanced Bionics back in the day and I think they did cochlear implants. I think they recently got bought out by Boston Scientific but the stuff they could do was amazing.

[Zcustom]

Very cool!

Also comforting since I'll be deaf in another 10 years or so

[Mayor Qumiby]

If this thread doesn't make your day better, than you suck.

Can these implants fix all deaf people?

I wish but unfortunately no, my lil bro has been deaf since birth and my folks have looked into every possible option on getting him to hear but so far no luck. Buttt with new technologies developing hopefully something comes out that can help him.

This video is awesome though, actually made me a bit watery eyed.

[boo7382]

I wish but unfortunately no, my lil bro has been deaf since birth and my folks have looked in to every possible option on getting him to hear but so far no luck. Buttt with new technologies developing hopefully something comes out that can help him.

This video is awesome though, actually made me a bit watery eyed.

Do you know sign language?

<------big language nerd, it has always interested me. I used to wait tables with a girl who was going to school to be a deaf teacher and knew how to sign.

[Mayor Qumiby]

I do but not as much as id like to know, lol its funny how he corrects me when i sign something wrong.. his vocabulary amazing considering all the factors.

[Epistaxis]

If this thread doesn't make your day better, than you suck.

Can these implants fix all deaf people?

Sadly, no.

It depends on the individual deficiency locus.

Every once in a while I get reminded of why human beings don't completely suck.

Some cleft lip/palate repairs come to mind.

A mother seeing her son/daughter minus facial deformity for the first time is not as dramatic as these youtubes, since postop time is sometimes not esthetically pretty and often stressful. A few weeks later and it is Niagra falls though.

[Delhommey]

I do this for women, but substitute "the ability to hear" with "the ability to have multiple earth shattering orgasms".

[Carolina Husker]

Nice. I was expecting someone to yell something like "Gorilla Semen Farts" in the back ground...I mean I was considering the source.

[PhillyB]

awesome vid! the one with the 16 year old kid doesn't work though...

<------big language nerd, it has always interested me.

what languages do you speak/are you interested in speaking?

[Kitten Diver]

I wish but unfortunately no, my lil bro has been deaf since birth and my folks have looked into every possible option on getting him to hear but so far no luck. Buttt with new technologies developing hopefully something comes out that can help him.

This video is awesome though, actually made me a bit watery eyed.

Hopefully he will be able to hear in the near future. Sight and Sound are things no one should have to live without.