Did you miss the cheers going up from the hearing impaired section of the globe? Some good news has come to light for people with hearing loss in the last six months. In case you missed it, here are five things to be happy about if you or someone you love suffers from degraded hearing….
If you haven’t experienced it yourself, maybe you’ve observed it in parents or friends: the strain one person’s hearing loss can put on his or her primary relationships. An overview of the scientific literature, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology and summarized in Hearing Review, suggests that, indeed, hearing loss in…
A hearing aid that reads lips? What is this, the future? Actually, it’s the present. Scientists in Scotland are working on a hearing aid that has a tiny camera equipped with lip-reading software that uses facial recognition technology. The software translates the words into speech and plays it into the ear in real-time, so no…
What do Billy Joel, Kendrick Lamar, Bassnectar and Clint Eastwood have in common? Right, not much. But the first three will be playing at Bonnaroo this June, meaning they’ll have, in a roundabout way, sponsorship from the maker of a high-fidelity earplug called DUBS Acoustic Filters. And the fourth guy was driving around Coachella last…
Here’s a sobering statistic: the World Health Organization estimates there are 360 million people around the world who suffer from disabling hearing loss, including 32 million kids. This being the age of tech, solutions have naturally arisen to address this global public health issue. In other words, there’s an app for that. Forbes has reported…