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HRH picks up some good vibrations!
9:37am Wednesday 23rd January 2008
Comments (2)PRINCE Edward was the star of the show at a new state-of-the art £6m research centre to revolutionise hearing and test the effects of sound and vibration on the human body in Southampton.
The Earl of Wessex, pictured second right, officially opened the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, ISVR, at the University of Southampton, which includes the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre.
For more than 40 years the Institute has worked on the interface between technology and humans, playing a major part in making aircraft quieter, developing more efficient cochlear implants for people with hearing loss and improving sound systems.
Research completed at the Institute has also been used in the design of every car built after 1987.
Touring the centre the prince, was given a demonstration of how research is undertaken in the centre's Human Factors Research Unit, which houses the world's only six-axis simulator for investigating the effect of motion on people's performance and comfort.
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King Mush, Woolston says...
6:02pm Wed 23 Jan 08
Dan Druff wrote:Can you imagine the size of one of these ear implants if needed by brother Charles???
six-axis simulatorI now know what it's called, and what it does, but I still don't know what it actually is - but this doesn't stop me from wanting one!
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Dan Druff, says...
2:54pm Wed 23 Jan 08
I now know what it's called, and what it does, but I still don't know what it actually is - but this doesn't stop me from wanting one!