Fingers that can hear, ears that can see – science fiction? Prof Amir Amedi thinks not and over the past few decades has created super senses allowing those with reduced sight or hearing to retrain their brain to see and hear differently.

In this weeks on air chat Hong Kong Radio 3’s Phil Whelan and I chat about the future of brain interfaces as we explore the good, bad and uncertainty of hacking into our brain.

Hacking the brain isn’t entirely new, Doctors have been drilling into the brain to relieve pressure for centuries, we’ve been inserting cochlear implants, pacemakers, taking brain altering medicines and soon we”ll implant bionic eye.

Some of the new interventions include Elon Musk’s Neurlink, BCI Brain Computer Interfaces and Optogenetics the use of light to stimulate the brain.

Listen now to explore these incredible brain hack medical frontiers (14 minutes 17 seconds)