Experiment with double cochlear implants gives woman 'ears'

A choice made here as well...with the implants she cannot have an MRI at any point in time..and anything magnetic will stick to the side of her head...for hearing ability and if in the same scenario, I would make the same decision...no male or female voice, everything sounds like "Kermit the Frog" she says...and she did experience some vertigo initially...and music is a challenge...BD

Shelly Farmer's "ears" are barely noticeable beneath her dark, curly hair. She can take them off, put them back on, let the batteries recharge overnight.
She can adjust them to tune in everyday sounds, tune out background noise or to take in music.
Make no mistake, they are not hearing aids. Her cochlear implants are more like replacement parts, highly technical electronic stand-ins for the original organs, which conked out more than 20 years ago for reasons neither Farmer nor her doctors understand.
Parts of her "ears" as she calls them — specifically, the magnet that attaches the miniature transmitter to the receiver implanted on her scalp — make her susceptible to other magnetic objects.