I'm not sure why the implant is relevant. His hearing is intact. It's not going to be projecting into midbrain audio centers. Is it just under the skin bone conductance to leave his ears free?

Yes -- that's my understanding of it. Bone conduction is better, he said, and less cumbersome.

It also gets you soundbyte statements like "chip in your head" when in fact it's a fairly mundane technology that need not necessarily be implanted to have the same effect. You could hand his system to anyone and we could all have this extra-sensory experience. The article is strongly written from with the perspective that this is exclusive.