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Test Your Own Hearing

10. February 2009

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There are several websites that enable you to test your own hearing. One of my favorites is the one available from The University of New South Wales website- its fairly easy to use and tests a frequency range of 30hz to 16hz. That’s wider than your computer speakers will work so you’ll need a nice [...]

The New Widex Passion and the Audibility Extender Feature

9. May 2008

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I recently visited my audiologist here in San Francisco to meet with him and a representative audiologist from Widex to try out a brand new hearing aid- the Widex Passion. The representative was there to fit and adjust the new hearing aid and see how I responded to a unique concept called the audibility extender. [...]

Which Hearing Aids Do You Wear?

9. April 2008

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I have a couple questions for my great readers: Which hearing aids do you wear? Are you happy with them? – How do they help change your life for the better? What don’t you like about them? Did you pay for them out of pocket? Were you able to get financial assistance from Insurance or [...]

Psilocybin and Hearing Loss

4. April 2008

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Mind altering substances of many kinds may have something to teach us but they’ve been mostly dismissed, demonized, and cast into broad legal categories that aren’t meaningful. I had a curious experience a number years ago with one of these schedule 1 substances that led to a bit of an epiphany. No, I didn’t discover [...]

Great Ear Plugs for Concerts: Etymotic Research

17. March 2008

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A typical earplug from Walgreen’s squelches so much sound that I don’t really enjoy concerts with them. Most earplugs are made of high density foam that muffle speech and music- they reduce sound more in the high frequencies (that I really need) than the mid and low frequencies, which makes the sound unnatural and unclear. [...]

Iphone is not Hearing Aid Compatible

2. March 2008

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From the point of view of a hearing impaired person, the iPhone sucks. The features that would make the phone more accessible to the hearing impaired are within the internal chip’s capabilities but they have been purposely crippled by the software that runs the phone. Paula Rosenthal at Hearing Exchange has this to say, Apple’s [...]

New Startup, Insound Medical, Develops Invisible Hearing Aid

2. March 2008

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A new privately held, venture backed company named Insound Medical has developed a very interesting new “hearing solution” called the Lyric (its funny that they avoid “hearing aid” at all costs- most companies are doing this in one way or another). Developed by ENT physicians and audiologists, this new hearing aid rests very close to [...]

Top 10 Trends in Hearing Health Industry

27. February 2008

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Karl Strom, Editor-in-Chief at The Hearing Review, has an interesting top 10 list- focusing on the big news for 2007 in in the hearing health industry. He knows these are cheesy USA Today Style but does them anyway. I’ll comment on some of these in later posts but here we go: 1) Sonova-GN deal is [...]

Why Buy a New Pair of Hearing Aids?

26. February 2008

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I’ve been wearing Resound Canta 7 hearing aids for three years now and I have nothing but praise to give them. However, I am in the market to check out the latest technology available in digital hearing aids and I’ll be trying out many different brands. Its usually an obsessive and vapid practice to check [...]

100% deaf-friendly porn

14. February 2008

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Got your attention? Kathryn Hill, based out of San Francisco, runs a great deaf blog called Stone Deaf Pilots–In a post from a while ago she mentions a deaf owned porn company, DeafBunny. They found a hole in the pornography industry and they aim to fill it. The movies feature deaf actors that communicate with [...]