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The brainstem to audio waves. he s the first child in the u.s. to receive an auditory brainstem implant and as you can see, it worked. his parents are thrilled and tell cnn grayson loves music. the family of a 7-year-old georgia boy could not afford costly new hearing implants for him. then a viewer saw their story right here on cnn and he made it his mission to help. cnn s george howell tells us more. when your teacher turns away from the class and turns to the board, can you hear her? no. why? because when i don t have my hearing aid on and somebody is t turned away from me, i don t know what they re saying. how does that make you feel? sad. when talking to 7-year-old hayden mckenzie, you have got to speak up. so i can hear. reporter: hayden has one used ....
Just soaking in the sounds around him. taking it all in. we showed you this video yesterday. this is when grayson clamp heard his dad s voice for the very first time. the 3-year-old, he is the first child in the united states to receive an auditory brain stem implant. he was born without a nerve that connects the brain stem to audio waves. his parents, they re absolutely thrilled. as you can imagine. with all of his progress. this morning they were on cnn s new day. we learned little grayson loves music. watch. i don t know that there s any that he doesn t like. he likes it all. yeah, yeah. i love it all. we ve had a few times where there s been live music he s really been drawn to. i m curious about the relationship between the boys, too. i imagine they have their own way of communicating as siblings often do, right? yeah. have things changed? are you seeing how they re discovering new things together? i don t think yeah. they like to communicate through wrestlin ....
Probably don t want to call too much attention to the whole gottfried thing but the lucky guy is 36-year-old daniel mckeagh. he s a father of three from minnesota. there he is right there. the new voice of the aflac commercials, and it sounds pretty good. that s the face of a guy who made a lot of money. speaking of a lot of money. this makes you think we re in the wrong business. one of those stories that makes you think why didn t i have a different talent in life? the whole app craze now, the smartphones out there and there s a guy that s named adam kahan. is he single? i m joking. adam developed an app called into.now, it s kind of cool. scans audio waves from your tv set. and it identifies which shows you re watching so you can tell your friends about it on twitter and facebook and for the last five years it can identify the show, the episode and when it aired. the last five years. impressive app. well, guess what? he just sold it to yahoo! for between $20 and $30 mill ....