TECHNOLOGY: Vest For The Deaf Translates Peech Into Vibrations.

Scientist working on a wearable device that can translate spoken words into vibrations to help deaf people perceive speech in a completely new way.

Scott Novich and David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Baylor College of medicine in Houston, Texas, are developing a device that relies on sensory substitution, which involves feeding information from one sense into another.