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Neuroscientist David Eagleman is working on the cutting edge of technology, as it is poised to change what it means to be human. His groundbreaking research is revealing new ideas about the inner workings and behaviors of our own minds. What would the world be like if we could expand our senses beyond our given capacities? To explore the possibility, Eagleman’s laboratory feeds sensory signals into the brain through atypical sensory pathways. For example, solving the limitations of deafness by turning auditory information into a series of vibrating patterns on the torso. It’s done via the VEST – the versatile extra-sensory transducer – a garment worn under clothing.  But the VEST isn’t just for deafness: Eagleman’s lab is using it to feed in other streams of information, including weather, stock market, and twitter data.  Using this approach of sensory substitution, can we can translate and feed almost any kind of data through the skin right to the brain? It’s a high tech twist on the human sensory experience… with the potential to change our relationship to technology and our minds.Web page: http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Curiosity_Retreats_2016_…