It has been said that technology is digging our own grave. Perhaps, but today's modern medicine with its digital technology is making results, that could be called miracles. How would you otherwise name a surgery that enables a completely deaf child to hear a sound for the first time? Cochlear implant is a surgically implanted digital hearing device which consists of three main components. A receiver that records the sound, a processor that processes sound in digital recording and a cochlear implant which electronically stimulates hearing nerve in the inner ear.

photo/text Borut Peterlin