Touching on pornography
User configurable hearing aids This is a long way off topic but it’s just a thought I would like to share to lighten the mood. I recently saw that Braille pornography is being produced for the first time. Playboy have previously produced a Braille version of their magazines in which the pictures are normal but the text is in Braille (which oddly assumes that people buy the magazine for the text…)....
Wed, May 26 2010

Audiologists are an endangered species
User configurable hearing aids The more I think about this, the more I realise that audiologists are the problem. They are blindly trying to do what is, frankly, an impossible job. When they admit to that fact and act upon it, we will start making real progress. In the old analogue days, audiologists had just a few options at their disposal. They could choose the correct sort of hearing aid, make ...
Wed, May 26 2010

Now, where was I?
User configurable hearing aids First of all, I must apologise for my absence just when things were starting to get a bit juicy. There are a few reasons why I haven’t been blogging and I suspect that readers can relate to them: My personality type is not suited to blogging. I get really enthusiastic about things, persist for a while and then let them just fizzle out. To be a good blogger requires g...
Wed, May 26 2010

Why aren’t we hearing more about this problem?
User configurable hearing aids I started testing digital hearing aids about fifteen years ago and, straight off the starting blocks, I wanted to program my own hearing aids. In view of my own strong urge, I’m sure that many other people must want to do the same thing. Therefore it’s surprising and strange that no fuss has been made about this in the press. I don’t know the reason is but I do have a...
Wed, May 26 2010