In a twist of fate, Sandy Mintz, an audiologist with medical device designer Advanced Bionics, lost her hearing about 10 years ago. Now, she is working with Samsung to help develop a wireless MP3 system so the deaf can enjoy music.



The idea is to link a Samsung MP3 player to the cochlear implant developed and sold by Advanced Bionics, which is a division of Boston Scientific. The cochlear implant consists of a processor worn outside the ear. The processor converts audio streams from the MP3 player (as well as ambient sounds and human speech) into digital data. The data then goes to another chip, implanted in a person's skull, which translates the data into electrical impulses.

The electrical impulses are then passed down an electrode, which stimulates a nerve that makes the brain create music. It stimulates the nerve in the same way the nerve is stimulated in people with hearing. The implant system effectively bypasses the damaged tissue. (The picture which looks like two batteries in a person's hand is the implant that goes in the patient's skull. The electrode is the thin strand.)







For conversations, the implant works great. "I couldn't use a voice phone for 10 years. Three days after I had it put in I talked to my dad on the phone," Mintz said at CES.

The trick now is to optimize the system for music. Getting the pitch and frequency of music is difficult. "You have to fine tune it," she said. Wireless is also a challenge. One idea is to link the external ear piece with the MP3 player through Bluetooth.

So far, the results are promising, and Samsung is seeking FDA approval.

Sep 26, Flagstaff,Ariz:

A thief with hankering for sexy undergarments slipped of with hundreds of Bras from a Victoria's Secret store in broad daylight.



Police in Flagstaff say they are taking a close at how the thief managed to take off with about 350 bras while the store was open. The anti-theft tags on the bras did not triggered the store alarm.



The theft from the store at the Flagstaff Mall on Sunday was not captured by surveillance cameras, police said. They suspect the items may be resold, and are monitoring Internet auction sites.

The Bras are worth an estimated $15000:hit

Kuala lampur,Sep 25:

Malaysian Doctors have reattached a man's nearly severed his penis after his first wife, enraged by his comparison of her sex skills with those of his younger second wife, decided to chop it off with a kitchen's knife.

The man, a 43 years old Indonesian worker in south Johor state, was lying in his bed with his 48 years old wife talking about his newly wed second wife, who is in 30's, when the incident happened, the New Straits Times Newspaper reported.

:yikes

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Kuala lampur,Sep 25:

Malaysian Doctors have reattached a man's nearly severed his penis after his first wife, enraged by his comparison of her sex skills with those of his younger second wife, decided to chop it off with a kitchen's knife.

The man, a 43 years old Indonesian worker in south Johor state, was lying in his bed with his 48 years old wife talking about his newly wed second wife, who is in 30's, when the incident happened, the New Straits Times Newspaper reported.

:yikes