Suppose the Company sends you off to a training seminar or some such to learn a new language, and then you go and write a few things in that language that you wouldn't even have known if the Company hadn't paid for it. (Holy run-on sentence, batman!) What then?
Well, there's something called the Auditory Brain Implant. It converts auditory signals into electrical signals, and sends them directly into the brainstem, bypassing the auditory nerve. This is useful for people who've had their auditory nerves damaged, possibly from an acoustic neuroma (tumor on the auditory nerve). Last I read about it a few years ago, it takes a bit of training to familiarize oneself with the new "sounds," but otherwise helps to get some form of hearing back to folks who've lost it. A simple Yahoo search doesn't show anything informative about it, though.
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Suppose the Company sends you off to a training seminar or some such to learn a new language, and then you go and write a few things in that language that you wouldn't even have known if the Company hadn't paid for it. (Holy run-on sentence, batman!) What then?
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Well, there's something called the Auditory Brain Implant. It converts auditory signals into electrical signals, and sends them directly into the brainstem, bypassing the auditory nerve. This is useful for people who've had their auditory nerves damaged, possibly from an acoustic neuroma (tumor on the auditory nerve). Last I read about it a few years ago, it takes a bit of training to familiarize oneself with the new "sounds," but otherwise helps to get some form of hearing back to folks who've lost it. A simple Yahoo search doesn't show anything informative about it, though.
Or maybe for those of us who are hard of hearing, too?
Egg, finally de-lelurking