Bone Conductive Instrument (BCI)
The Bone Conductive Instrument, or BCI, is a project that allows people with hearing loss to make and listen music—but that’s an oversimplification. It’s both an instrument and a way to play back previously recorded music. You hold the BCI against you, and it sends sound signals through your body by vibrating against your jaw. That means it responds to your unique physical characteristics, and it means that the BCI lets people with any level of hearing ability to play and listen thanks to its system of haptic feedback.