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Bone Conduction Hearing Aid A Quick Basic Introduction We all hear sounds through both our bones (bone-conducted or bone-transmitted) and our eardrums (air-conducted or air-transmitted). Most sounds are heard by our eardrums. The eardrum converts the sound waves to vibrations and transmits them to the cochlea (or inner ear). However in some cases vibrations are heard directly by the inner ear bypassing your eardrums. In fact, this is one of the ways you hear your own voice. This is also how whales hear.  Ludwig van Beethoven, the famous 18th century composer who was almost completely deaf, discovered Bone Conduction. Beethoven found a way to hear the sound of the piano through his jawbone by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it in his teeth. He received perception of the sound when vibrations transfer from the piano to his jaw. This has proven that sound could reach our auditory system through another medium besides eardrums and the other medium is our bones....

The Eminent Imminent. Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers The Next Colossi in Pharmaceuticals - Anand Theertan, Student @ VIT “The pharmaceutical industry is pretty unusual. 95 per cent of what it does fails. For an evidence-based industry, we don’t actually use a lot of it.” says Jackie Hunter, joint director at bioinformatics start-up  Benevolent AI . Ok, let’s rundown the facts and face the conundrum. One. Every 30 seconds, a scientific paper is published. Two. Over 10,000 a day are added towards just the medical portion of pharmaceutical research. Three. Because of this ungodly number, the amount of research that becomes ‘usable’ is only a small portion of this. Four. How can you turn such a disadvantage into a table-turning, game-changing asset? Answer? A.I BenevolentAI wants to solve this by developing a tool that combs through all this data to provide researchers and scientists with up to-date inf...