Cochlear Implant is a Cyborg-enhanced hearing aid!

[TheZephyrr]

ahaha just kidding. thats pretty cool we have the techno to do stuff like this now. awsome

[TheZephyrr]

i have hearing aids. had em since i was 4. i have a chronic RINGING in my ears, makes me want to scream!!! oh and shove a screwdriver in my ear no joke. ok, enough. Do you think this would be a corrective replacement or should i just be thankful i can hear?

[bandwagonretards]

if i were born deaf and my parent DIDN'T give me implants to hear early in age, i'd be pretty fucking pissed at them. who fucking cares if some of us end up as "cyborgs", the idea is to create a standard of living and fulfillment for everyone.

what if your hands got chopped off and you couldn't sign anymore? would you opt in to have robotic hands put on so that you could sign again?

[peterb362]

Thank you Cochlear.  Great technology.

[RayhannaLovesCG]

your kidding right?

[Salticid68]

I'm a fan of Star Trek. Yeah, Captain Picard and his crew fighting against Borgs. Thank god, many CI users didn't become Borgs.

[libertine1717]

Thank you for your very insightful analysis using cyborgs on the issue of CI! You should check out Donna Haraway's article The Cyborg Manifesto. Technology is with us and is everywhere and is here to stay. For better or worse. I have a minor hearing loss with a large deaf family, so I am very skeptical of CI on small children.

[PinkProgram]

This is why I refer to myself as a homunculus and not a cyborg... I think the official term is hybrot (hybrid organic technology). though I'm sure the components of my body will be reengineered to function in a human... I'm not sure what a human with organic machine parts would be called. I don't think cyborg really fits if your implants are independent organic symbiotes that graft to the nervous system like polyps in a siphonophore ^_^

[deafmutearthur]

Discovery channel show new thing for one who can not talk... voice implant, device connect to brain ... speak out what you want to say.... I like that... no need to practice.... perfect match with CI