Here's some nice news. It's great to see modern technology being put to good use (I almost said "for a change").

To my mind, linkage between *electronic devices and the bio-system is what true biomedical engineering is all about!
Here's some more about the
BrainPort.
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Anyone else remember the magic device of about thirty years ago that was supposed to speed up the healing of bone fractures by using magnetic fields? What ever became of that?