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Deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing people came together at a concert in New York to enjoy classical music, all wearing haptic harnesses, wrist and ankle bracelets, which translated the sound onto the skin via vibration.

Providing the wearable technology was Music: Not Impossible.

Flavia Naslausky is the head of business development for the company.

After years of research, they've succeeded in engineering a complete platform for composing, translating and sending audio vibrations wirelessly to the users' bodies with almost zero sound delay.

The equipment can be adjusted, depending on the type of concert and style of music.

Patrick Hanlon's a co-founder of Music: Not Impossible.

Described as a 'Surround Body Experience', the harness and wrist and ankle bands supply 8 distinct areas of vibration across the user's body.

Wearers can control the intensity of the vibrations, which are represented by colour LED lights.

Jay Zimmerman's a deaf person, a musical theatre composer and one of the first people to test the devices when they were first trialled in 2018.

Previously the only way for deaf people to have a sensory experience at a concert was to hold an inflated balloon and to feel its vibrations.

The Music: Not Impossible devices take this to a whole new level.

Celebrated musician Pharrell has even commented that it is the future of music.

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