Author: DCOPITHORNE
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Check Out 'The Mobile Phone Challenge' At Healthy Hearing
Dr. Paul Dybala, who runs two excellent web sites for hard-of-hearing consumers and hearing health professionals — Healthy Hearing and Audiology Online — asked me to contribute an article to Healthy Hearing on my experiences shopping for mobile phones that would work with my powerful hearing aids.
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Ear Gear Delivers For Cochlear Implants And Mini Open-Fit Hearing Aids
I wrote about Ear Gear hearing aid retention and protection systems a while ago and noted that if I’d been using them when I was cleaning out my gutters last fall I never would have lost my hearing aid.
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And Then There Were Six: GN Store Nord Puts GN ReSound On The Block
I wrote about the “seven sisters” of the global hearing aid industry a while ago, but now it appears there will be six.
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Buy Or Build? Starkey Turns Semiconductor Design Over To AMI
uy or build? That’s a question that always confronts system manufacturers. It makes sense to buy standard components, but you want to own the designs for components that give your product a performance edge. Starkey Laboratories has answered the question about a major component in its hearing aids by selling its chip design group to…
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Let's Boycott Super Bowl Advertisers Who Don't Supply Captions
What do BlockBuster, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Expedia.com have in common? Their Super Bowl ads this year didn’t have captions. They must not want our business.
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Varibel Hearing-Aid Glasses Integrate Eight Directional Microphones
Hiding hearing aids in a pair of glasses is an idea almost as old as hearing aids themselves. But Varibel, a Dutch company, has truly put new wine in old bottles by integrating eight sophisticated directional microphones into the frame of new hearing-aid glasses that the company says effectively double the boost in hearing you…
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Oticon Introduces Kid-Friendly Amigo FM Assistive Listening Devices
Oticon has recently increased its historically strong commitment to the pediatric market with the Amigo family of wireless FM assistive listening devices.
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Apple Should Do More To Help Prevent Hearing Loss Among iPod Users
Dr. Brent Edwards, head of the Starkey Hearing Research Center, says in his Innovation Science blog that “Apple’s response provides so little guidance on how to set the limit that it is near useless to concerned parents of children who use iPods or to concerned iPod listeners.”
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Vortis Cell Phone Antenna Reduces Hearing-Aid Interference
A start-up company based in Glasgow, Scotland, has developed an innovative antenna technology eliminating the electrical interference that can make cell phones impossible to use with hearing aids. Dual-antenna array technology built into the Vortis Technologies Ltd. antenna radiates electrical signals in a figure-eight pattern out and away from the user’s head and hearing aids.
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Hyper-Vigilance Is The Price Of Independence For Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing People
You need only look as far as the recent headlines about Miss Deaf Texas, killed by a train as she was distracted by text messaging while crossing some railroad tracks, to see why I regard hyper-vigilance as the price of my independence as a hard-of-hearing person.