Sounds from the Bionic Ear Within!
By David Kemp, Ph.D., FRS
There's lots of excitement about digital hearing aids, cochlear implants and other amazing advances in technology that are bringing great benefits to people who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH). But they are all just copies of nature's original creation – our biological hearing aid, called the cochlear amplifier, that is a key part of every healthy inner ear. Without it, about half of our hearing would disappear.