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Awesome hearing aid packaging from Widex

deafness and hearing aids This is cool. A company called Good Morning Design have produced hearing aid packaging for Widex that produces what looks like a moving sound wave when the box is opened. Not only that, apparently the sound wave represents someone saying Widex's “High Definition Hearing” slogan. This is a post from: deafness and hearing aids - the [...]
Tech Thu, Aug 28 2008

Can you hear movement?

deafness and hearing aids Melissa Saenz, Ph.D., a postdoc at Caltech, has discovered that the video above can identify people with auditory synesthesia, a condition that can make some people hear music, even though there is no music being played. From the press statement by Caltech: “While I was running an experiment at the Caltech Brain Imaging Center, a group of [...]
Tech Sun, Aug 24 2008

New research into hearing aid stigma

deafness and hearing aids A researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol wants to meet people diagnosed with impaired hearing but avoid wearing their aids. The Royal National Institute for the Deaf estimates nine million people in the UK have some degree of hearing loss but only 1.4 million use aids. Psychology student, Claire [...]
Tech Sat, Aug 23 2008

Would you buy or sell a hearing aid through this site?

deafness and hearing aids A few people have responded to my article about second hand hearing aids - there's been a few offering aids either cheaply or for free and a few people asking for them. Would you consider using this site to buy or sell a hearing aid? If enough people are interested and you feel that this site is [...]
Tech Thu, Jul 31 2008

Nokia’s hearing aid and cochlear implant bluetooth adapter

deafness and hearing aids Nokia have announced the release of a new cell-phone accessory designed for users with hearing aids: The Nokia Wireless Loopset works with T-coil equipped hearing aids or cochlear implants, and slips around the user's neck. The Wireless Loopset is compatible with Bluetooth-ready handsets, essentially transforming the user's hearing aid into a headset. The ...
Tech Wed, Jul 16 2008

Hearing aid manufacturers

deafness and hearing aids If you are thinking about buying a hearing aid, it's good to do a bit of market research to find out what's available. After all, hearing aids are expensive items and you want to do everything you can to make sure you purchase the right one for you. When you visit a hearing aid vendor / [...]
Tech Wed, Jul 16 2008

Over 70% of youngsters show first signs of hearing loss

deafness and hearing aids A survey carried out by Australian Hearing has found that: MORE than 70 per cent of young adults suffer from the first sign of hearing loss. The survey, commissioned by Australian Hearing, found adults aged between 18 and 24 reported suffering from tinnitus or ringing in the ear. Professor Harvey Dillon, director of the National Acoustics Laboratory at [...]
Tech Wed, Jun 18 2008

Vibe: ear candy from Siemens

deafness and hearing aids The Latest in “Ear Candy,” Vibe Reflects Wearer’s Fashion and Moods with Interchangeable, Ready-to-Wear Casings CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 2, 2008 – For the growing number of people with mild hearing loss, due in large part to the aging of 78 million baby boomers, hearing instrument options just leaped into a fashionable new realm where bold is [...]
Tech Thu, Jun 05 2008

Formula 1 engine noise affects commentator’s hearing

deafness and hearing aids In an interview with BBC Radio 4, Formula 1 racing commentator Murray Walker described the impact that 50 years at the side of the race track has had on his hearing and how that’s affecting his life. The commentator, who went deaf from the roar of the car engines, never wore ear protectors because he [...]
Education Tech Fri, May 30 2008

My name is Steve and I have a hearing loss

deafness and hearing aids Something unusual happened in the office last week: I had a conversation with several people about my hearing problems and the aids that I wear. I've never been one to hide my hearing aids, they are there for everyone to see, but I've never really talked about them with anyone. Possibly people just weren't interested or [...]
Culture Thu, May 15 2008

Find subtitled videos using Google

deafness and hearing aids You can use Google's video search to find subtitled videos on the web. Go to the Advanced Search option: The simply click the “search only closed captioned videos” checkbox: Super easy and super useful.
Tech Thu, May 15 2008

deafness and hearing aids Newsweek has an interview with Howard Weinstein, the designer of the SolarAid. He talks about the hurdles he faced when trying to get it into production and how he hopes it will help bring better hearing to Africa: Weinstein knew what he had to do: change the business model. Drawing on his years in the corporate [...]
Media Tech Wed, May 07 2008

Possible financial help for hearing aids?

deafness and hearing aids Americans are coming together in a campaign to encourage Congress to pass a federal tax credit to help people buy hearing aids. To help organize the effort to have Congress pass the legislation, the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) has launched a new Web site (www.hearingaidtaxcredit.org). An excellent resource and tool [...]
Tech Tue, May 06 2008

America Hears: A customer’s view

deafness and hearing aids David from Hearing Mojo has blogged about his recent purchase from America Hears. America Hears is a vendor that manufacturers and distributes hearing aids via the Internet. You send them an up-to-date audiogram and impressions of your ears and they will manufacture and mail back to you the hearing aid model of your choice. You are [...]
Tech Thu, Apr 24 2008

Second hand hearing aids?

deafness and hearing aids Why is there no established market for second hand hearing aids? Given the high price of a new aid, you would think that a cheaper second-hand model would be very tempting to a lot of people. It's not so different from buying a second hand car The second-hand car market is huge. People have the option of [...]
Tech Thu, Mar 20 2008

Starkey founder honoured

deafness and hearing aids William Austin, founder and chief executive of Starkey Laboratories in Eden Prairie, has long been known as the Santa Claus of Hearing. Now he's being honored as member of the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. The Horatio Alger award honors those who have defied adversity with hard work, courage and determination to achieve the American [...]
Tech Sun, Mar 16 2008

Digital Audio Used for Treatment of Tinnitus

deafness and hearing aids A company called Neuromonics believes it has developed an audio device that can treat people suffering from ringing in the ears, known as tinnitus. Using an audio player that over time changes the way it plays music and accompanying sounds, the firm already offers its service in number of clinics, reports today's Wall Street Journal: For [...]
Sun, Mar 16 2008

Product and service

deafness and hearing aids Hearing aid vendors supply both a product (the aid) and a service (fitting, maintenance, etc). To my mind, these are two completely separate things. I'm writing about this because I popped into my local Scrivens branch last weekend - I was waiting for my Wife and just happened to notice the “Hearing Care” sign in their [...]
Tech Wed, Mar 05 2008

Hearing Review top ten of 2007

deafness and hearing aids The Hearing Review's editor, Karl Strom, has compiled a list of last year's top ten news items from the hearing aid / health industry. It's an interesting list and also a very positive one - Karl talks about the advances in hearing aid technology and research as well as the increased exposure of hearing aids [...]
Tech Fri, Feb 29 2008

Burger King settles student’s lawsuit

deafness and hearing aids The owner of a Burger King franchise in Newark has agreed settle a lawsuit filed by a student who was fired after one day on the job because the owner discovered he wore hearing aids. Andy Patel, who owns the Burger King inside the University Hospital complex, reached a settlement with Jordan Myrie Feb. 5 as [...]
Media Audism Legal Sun, Feb 24 2008

Take your hearing aids out, hear more

deafness and hearing aids You could hear more by taking your hearing aids out. How does that work? Well, I was in a meeting yesterday, sat around a table with seven other people - after a while I realised that I wasn't hearing several of them as well as I normally would be. I did a quick check that the [...]
Tech Wed, Feb 20 2008

Lean BSL online with SignpostBSL

deafness and hearing aids The Signpost website is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn BSL. They have a fingerspelling video tutorial that goes through the alphabet - you can zoom the video in and out, you can view it in slow-motion and you can also view left of right-handed spelling. More impressively there is another option that [...]
Language Tech Culture Sat, Feb 16 2008

Sensorineural hearing loss

deafness and hearing aids A sensorineural hearing loss is one that affects the nerves in the inner ear. The more the nerves are damaged the greater the hearing loss will be. In addition to affecting the sensitivity or loudness of hearing, a sensorineural loss can also affect the clarity of hearing - meaning that, for example, if a sound [...]
Sat, Feb 02 2008

Conductive hearing loss

deafness and hearing aids A conductive hearing loss is one that affects the structures that conduct the sound to the inner ear - this includes both the middle and outer ear. Common causes of conductive hearing loss are: Wax build up Fluid or infection in the middle ear Ruptured eardrum Damage to middle ear bones Many cases of conductive hearing loss are treatable. Wax [...]
Tech Fri, Feb 01 2008

Bob’s house vignettes (ASL videos)

deafness and hearing aids Pepsi are at it again. Not content with showing a totally silent ad during the Superbowl that features two deaf characters using ASL (with subtitles) - they have produced four other videos that are, frankly, fantastic. I think Pepsi are doing a really great job with this ad campaign - they are showing the deaf [...]
Media Art and Storytelling Wed, Jan 30 2008

Widex Inteo test drive

deafness and hearing aids Melinda Beck has written in the Wall Street Journal about her experiences with a Widex Inteo aid. It's an interesting article because it touches on some of the problems that new hearing aid wearers face, such as: A rush of new sounds: New aid wearers will be hearing many sounds that they haven't heard for a [...]
Tech Tue, Jan 29 2008

Hearing aids suck!

deafness and hearing aids There's an article in WIRED magazine by Erin Biba called “Why Things Suck: Hearing Aids”. The article starts by, quite rightly, stating that hearing aids are too expensive - I couldn't agree more. It then goes on to talk about directional microphones, inadequate feedback and noise reduction and, finally, the the fact that insurance rarely cover...
Tech Sat, Jan 26 2008

Open fit hearing aids

deafness and hearing aids Open fit hearing aids are similar in style to BTE aids in that a shell site above your ear and a wire travels down from there into your ear canal - but that's where the similarities end. Open Fit BTEs are much newer technology than traditional BTEs - the sell above the ear is much [...]
Tech Tue, Jan 22 2008

Learn to Sign in Video

deafness and hearing aids Krown Manufacturing, a maker of specialty devices for people with poor hearing, was displaying this device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The simple machine has videos of all 4,500 words of the US sign language that can be quickly played back for reference. Krown predicts it will go on sale by the [...]
Tech Mon, Jan 14 2008

Plantronic Clarity phone for hard of hearing

deafness and hearing aids Plantronic Clarity have released a new phone for the hard of hearing - the C4230 telephone / answering machine. Features include: Volume and tone control - A volume boost control allows you turn up to a maximum of 50db. As well as volume boost, the C4230 allows you to change the tone to suit your own [...]
Tech Fri, Jan 11 2008

KT-Tunstall writes songs for her deaf brother

deafness and hearing aids KT Tunstall wants to write music for her profoundly deaf brother. The ‘Suddenly I See' singer, whose 28-year-old younger sibling Daniel was born with the hearing condition, is planning to create some hi-tempo beats to please her brother. KT said: “I've always wanted to write some music for Daniel, and find out scientifically what [...]
Art and Storytelling Tech Thu, Jan 10 2008

Interview with Pearl from SayWhatClub.com

deafness and hearing aids Pearl got in touch with me recently and let me know about www.saywhatclub.com - she is a long-standing member of the club and editor of their newsletter. I asked if her if she would answer a few interview questions via email and let us know what the club is all about. Steve: Before we talk about [...]
Culture Thu, Jan 03 2008

Learning sign language (BSL and ASL)

deafness and hearing aids One of my new year resolutions is to begin learning sign language. It is something I have been thinking about for many years but have never got around to doing. I guess, similar to a spoken language, sign is not something your are going to learn in a short period of time - I think [...]
Wed, Jan 02 2008

Deafness in adults

deafness and hearing aids Professor Anthony Wright talks about mp3 players and hearing loss, analogue and digital hearing aids, the NHS and future research into hearing loss. An interview with Prof Wright.
Tech Mon, Dec 31 2007

Audiologist sells NHS batteries on eBay

deafness and hearing aids A SENIOR hearing specialist at the Great Western Hospital has admitted selling NHS stock on eBay during work hours - then using hospital franking machines to send off his sales. Paul Jones, 28, was yesterday given a 16-week suspended sentence and 280 hours' community service by Swindon magistrates after he admitted selling £276 of hearing aid [...]
Media Legal Sun, Dec 16 2007

Antique ear trumpets

deafness and hearing aids Here's something you don't see everyday - an online ear trumpet gallery! The Phisick Antique Medical Collection shows a large range of ear trumpets from the 19th and 20th centuries. Fascinating to see the kind of things people used to help them hear all those years ago. I'm kinda glad technology has moved on a bit since then!
Tech Tue, Dec 04 2007

A look at Starkey

deafness and hearing aids Healthcare Digital has a interesting little article about Starkey UK. It talks a bit about the company's history, current production model and their quality control processes. A look at Starkey.
Tech Tue, Dec 04 2007

Can you cope without your hearing aid?

deafness and hearing aids If you are a hearing aid wearer, can you go without them? Do you feel comfortable leaving the house if you haven't got your aids in? I have a severe hearing loss in both ears - if I am not wearing my aids and somebody wants to speak to me then they have to be close [...]
Tech Tue, Dec 04 2007

Personal hearing aid software

deafness and hearing aids I previously wrote about how letting hearing aid wearers program their own aids would be good thing. To briefly recap: I think that giving us wearers a simplified version of the software that audiologists use to program digital hearing aids to an individual's requirements would allow us to get maximum benefit from our aids. A comment [...]
Tech Tue, Nov 20 2007

Oticon ends online hearing aid sales

deafness and hearing aids Oticon's new distribution guidelines state that they will only supply their products to distributors who directly fit and sell Oticon products to end-users through face-to-face in-person consultations. These new guidelines effectively bring an end to customers being able to buy Oticon products via the Internet, mail order or catalogues. In a press release, The A...
Tech Fri, Nov 16 2007

Hear more, see more.

deafness and hearing aids This combination of glasses and hearing aids comes from the Delft University of Technology in partnership with Philips. Embedded along the length of each arm are four directional microphones that localise on the direction in which the wearer is looking and reduce other directional background noise. I'm guessing that because there are four microphones along [......
Tech Fri, Nov 09 2007

Miss Deaf World 2007 Gallery

deafness and hearing aids The Miss Deaf World website now has a gallery of images from the event - in fact, the gallery has been up for ages but it's not as if I spend all my time checking missdeafworld for updates, ok? The Miss Deaf World Gallery page.
Culture Fri, Nov 09 2007

A demonstration of hearing loss

deafness and hearing aids The Phonak website has a very interesting page on which they demonstrate what it is like to be partially deaf. The page has a number of links that play everyday sounds, such as people talking in various environments, bird song, a piano, a telephone, etc. You can select one of three options for each sound: [...]
Tech Tue, Nov 06 2007

Conductive and Sensorineural hearing loss

deafness and hearing aids There are many possible causes of hearing loss. These can be divided into two basic types: conductive and sensorineural hearing loss.Conductive hearing loss is caused by anything that interferes with the transmission of sound from the outer to the inner ear. Below are some possible causes of conductive hearing loss. Middle ear infections (otitis media). Collection of...
Thu, Oct 25 2007

Bionica says Clio is worth getting excited about

deafness and hearing aids Bionica Corp have filed patents relating to their Clio hearing aid. Up until now they have been very quiet about the Clio but now Bionica´s chief executive officer, Peter T. Hahn, given some details of it's design. The Clio´s controls are simple to operate, modeled after popular digital music players, Hahn said in an interview. The acoustic feedback triggered by...
Tech Wed, Oct 17 2007

Donate your old hearing aids to charity

deafness and hearing aids I was tidying out some drawers the other day and I found my old hearing aids. I have some Siemens ITCs and two pairs of Starkey ITEs - I'm sure I also have at least one pair of BTEs somewhere but they didn't turn up. My first thought was to throw them into the bin with the rest of the stuff from the drawer but I remembered reading something somewhere about...
Mon, Oct 08 2007

Starkey Foundation helps LA kids

deafness and hearing aids Yesterday, 150 kids got a very special gift - the ability to hear clearly. It's a project of the Starkey Hearing Foundation, who came to L.A. with one goal in mind - to give children in need hearing aids. Sixteen-year-old Krista Gillinger is about to get the thrill of her life. One hundred and fifty children whose families can't afford the high cost of hea...
Tech Tue, Sep 25 2007

LACE: Teach yourself to listen

deafness and hearing aids LACE (Listening and Communication Enhancement) is computer software that helps you to improve your listening and vocal comprehension skills. Hearingaids help you hear, but they don't help you to listen. This is where LACE comes in. The software runs on Windows and Mac and offers a number of listening tests to train your brain to better pick out and understand wo...
Tech Fri, Sep 21 2007

Dave Grohl talks about his hearing loss

deafness and hearing aids Foo Fighters star Dave Grohl has revealed that his deafness is causing problems in his marriage because his wife has to repeat herself all the time. The former Nirvana drummer admits all rock star marriages have the same issue - because loud music kills normal conversation. Grohl told women's magazine Elle: "Any woman who's going to date a rock [...]
Fri, Sep 21 2007

MP3 users are risking hearing loss

deafness and hearing aids More than two-thirds of young people who regularly use MP3 players face premature hearing damage because the volume is too high, a charity warns. The Royal National Institute for Deaf People said its findings were alarming, particularly with eight million MP3 players sold last year alone in the UK. It accused manufacturers of failing to put clear and prominent [...]
Wed, Sep 19 2007


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