LONDON — Frank Swain can hear Wi-Fi, and he's been tuning in to the city's networks for the past week.
It's not "the result of a sudden mutation or years of transcendental meditation," the writer insists. Instead, he's hacked a hearing device to translate wireless frequencies into sound, enabling him to listen in to London's multitude of hotspots, as the rest of us pass through them oblivious.
Swain, 32, who has been going deaf since his 20s, created a project called Phantom Terrains in conjunction with sound artist Daniel Jones. Funded by UK innovation charity Nesta, the project aims to "challenge the notion of assistive hearing technology as a prosthetic, reimagining it as an enhancement that can surpass the ability of normal human hearing." Read more...
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