He's deaf, and he learned to play the piano after he received the cochlear implant.

And now today we have the modern multi channel cochlear implant, which is an outpatient procedure.

We would be thrilled if we had one semitone pitch perception in cochlear implant users.

This is our protocell technology, effectively making a shell, like its limestone forefathers, and depositing it in a very complex environment, against natural materials.

So if we had to design a perfect cochlear implant, what we would try to do is target it to be able to allow music transmission.

But there's millions of deaf people in the world, and the Cochlear implant has given hearing to thousands of deaf people now.

The best part about restorative seafood though is that it comes on the half shell with a bottle of Tabasco and lemon wedges.

This is our protocell technology, effectively making a shell, like its limestone forefathers, and depositing it in a very complex environment, against natural materials.

I was trying to get them to say what they probably wanted to say, to break out of their own cocoon of the public self, and the more public they had been, the more entrenched that person, that outer person was.

And it's based on the cochlear of your ear, able to pick up internet, wireless, television signals and radio signals, in the same chip.

The first reflex of the fundamentalists is to withdraw from the mainstream, to build around themselves a shell that is impervious to any logic other than their own.

Dear Nickelodeon, I've gotten over how Sponge Bob's pants are not actually square, I can ignore most of the time that Gary's shell is not a logarithmic spiral, but what I cannot forgive is that Sponge Bob's pineapple house is a mathematical impossibility!

Brain machine interfaces are already clinically well established for example, in restoring hearing through cochlear implants.

I've been very lucky to work with Dr. David Ryugo where I've been working on deaf cats that are white and trying to figure out what happens when we give them cochlear implants.

I was trying to get them to say what they probably wanted to say, to break out of their own cocoon of the public self, and the more public they had been, the more entrenched that person, that outer person was.

As a musician, I can tell you that if I had to have a cochlear implant, I'd be heartbroken. I'd just be plainly heartbroken, because I know that music would never sound the same to me.

Now if you look at the brain of an individual who has a cochlear implant and you have them listen to speech, have them listen to rhythm and have them listen to melody, what you find is that the auditory cortex is the most active during speech.

Okay, now if we consider that in a cochlear implant patient pitch perception could be off as much as two octaves, let's see what happens here when we randomize this to within one semitone.

If we were to direct efforts towards training cochlear implant users to hear music because right now there's virtually no effort put towards that, no rehabilitative strategies, very little in the way of technological advances to actually improve music we would come a long way.

Somehow in tickling our eardrum that transmits energy down our hearing bones, which get converted to a fluid impulse inside the cochlea and then somehow converted into an electrical signal in our auditory nerves that somehow wind up in our brains as a perception of a song or a beautiful piece of music.

So just the same way that we were able to jump over the damaged circuitry in the retina to get to the retina's output cells, we can jump over the damaged circuitry in the cochlea to get the auditory nerve, or jump over damaged areas in the cortex, in the motor cortex, to bridge the gap produced by a stroke.