Neurophone

The neurophone is an electronic device that transmits sound to the brain.

It was invented by Patrick Flanagan in 1958 and patented in the United States in 1968 (Patent #3,393,279).

In its original design, two mylar plastic insulated electrodes placed on the skin were connected to a 30-50 kHz amplitude modulated ultrasonic oscillator which generated about 3000 volts across the electrodes. Audio sent through the device allowed a person wearing the electrodes to hear the audio at the center of their head without the use of the person's ears. The neurophone was tested at Tufts University which proved that the skin under the electrodes were caused to vibrate by the energy field. Testing on completely deaf human subjects, who could not hear sound through ordinary bone conduction hearing aids, proved that the subjects were able to "hear" audio through the neurophone.

Flanagan, who claims the neurophone "stimulates perception through a 7th or Alternate Sense"[1] and describes it as "an electronic telepathy machine" also claims that immediately after his patent, the National Security Agency confiscated the neurophone and issued an NSA security order which prevented him from working on it or talking about it for 5 years.

External links

• "Whiz Kid, Hands Down" by William Moeser, LIFE Magazine, Sept 14, 1962"
• "Patrick Flanagan's Neurophone Hope for the Deaf and Superlearning for All" by Eddy Taylor, World Transformation"
• "Neurophone.com by Flantech Group