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Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High

15. July 2010

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“Kids around the country are getting high on the internet, thanks to MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy. And it could be a gateway drug leading teens to real-world narcotics. At least, that’s what Oklahoma News 9 is reporting about a phenomenon called “i-dosing,” which involves finding an online dealer who can hook you [...]

What does a hearing loss sound like?

15. July 2010

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Phonak has an interesting section on their website dedicated to the question: what does hearing loss sound like? I’ve gotten this question many times. They made a series of demos that roughly simulate what normal, mild, and moderate hearing losses sound like. I like that they sample a wide series of environments. The nitty gritty [...]

Voice-to-Text Services Getting Better

1. July 2010

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I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been frustrated listening to my voicemails- unable to make out an important number or name that I need to jot down. I’ve been hoping that software to transcribe voice to text was going to get good enough so that I might actually use it. Its now [...]

Wear a Hearing Device on your Tooth?

18. June 2010

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A hearing aid that fits on your teeth? Thats what Sonitus Medical has been working on for the past few years. The novel approach blends several technologies to solve the problem of single-sided conduction hearing loss. Essentially, this aid will help those who are deaf in one ear. The patient will wear a behind the [...]

Netflix Begins Rolling out Captions on Streaming Movies

26. April 2010

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Neil Hunt, CEO of Netflix, recently announced that Netflix will now begin to roll out captions for streaming movies. As of right now there are only about 100 titles that feature the closed captioning, and there is no obvious way to see which movie titles they are. Its a start and I hope they keep [...]

The Hifiman HM-801 Music Player Will Satisfy The Pickiest Audiophiles

14. March 2010

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From Gizmodo: The Hifiman HM-801 looks like an old portable cassette player, but apparently it might just beat out most music players in sound quality. At least that’s what CNET though when they had a listen. They even found it worth $790. The Hifiman was designed with audiophiles in mind, so it comes with features [...]

Steampunk Hearing Aid

5. March 2010

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Buying Hearing Aids Online

3. March 2010

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Just a note: The prevalence of online hearing aids isn’t a surprise. You can find top of the line hearing aids for a much cheaper price than you’d get at an audiologist office. But, really, its a terrible thing for the consumer and the hearing aid industry. First of all, the consumer is going to [...]

Technology- Change, Improvement, Complication?

24. February 2010

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“Technology (the word) gets batted around a lot. How do you define it? Change, improvement, complication? One definition I buy is that technology is a better way to do something, like laser-blasting away cancerous lesions inside your guts through a tube and using a television camera to make the pin-head sized cancer look at big [...]

How to File a Closed Captioning Complaint

27. April 2009

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The best way to describe Comedy Central’s captioning of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (one of my most favorite shows on TV) is: crappy and useless. Who’s at fault for this? It’s a rather opaque chain of command involved with this problem. I’m already aware that many producers out there aren’t involved with captioning [...]