I've always been amazed by the directional microphones in my hearing aids. They are super-sensitive, they can be adjusted to catch noise either 360 degrees or just from the person speaking to me, and they are smaller than your fingernail. The technology that has to go into such finely tuned instruments is amazing, and I recently came across a good video of Daniel Warren, … [Read more...] about Geek Alert: How Knowles Electronics Makes Hearing-Aid Microphones Smaller and Smarter
Hearing Aids
Opinion: Hearing Aid Pricing Should be More Transparent
The recent Consumer Reports survey of hearing-aid pricing and fitting practices highlighted a growing problem for the hearing-aid industry. Increasingly, consumers are starting to wonder why a few small digital components that can be purchased individually from wholesalers for tens of dollars each (digital signal processor, microphone, amplifier and software) end up in a set of … [Read more...] about Opinion: Hearing Aid Pricing Should be More Transparent
Consumer Reports Survey Finds Resellers Routinely Double Wholesale Prices of Hearing Aids
A Consumer Reports Magazine investigation of hearing-aid sales and fitting practices found that resellers commonly mark up the prices of new hearing aids more than 100 percent over the wholesale prices paid to manufacturers. In a major report published in the magazine's July issue, Consumer Reports editors followed a dozen hearing-impaired patients for 6 months as they shopped … [Read more...] about Consumer Reports Survey Finds Resellers Routinely Double Wholesale Prices of Hearing Aids
Congressman Markey Demands Internet-Video Captions For Hard-Of-Hearing Web Surfers
Democratic US Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts is backing a bill that would require major producers of web videos to provide captioning, a piece of legislation that provides many other benefits for people with hearing, vision and other disabilities. … [Read more...] about Congressman Markey Demands Internet-Video Captions For Hard-Of-Hearing Web Surfers
You Can Trade In Old Hearing Aids For $200 Back From America Hears
If you don't want to grind up your old unused hearing aids in a blender as seen in the funny Blendtec video, and if you have already made your charitable donations for the year and don't feel you need to donate them for recycling, there is another way to get them out of your drawer: you can trade in two of your old aids for $200 off the price of a pair of new digital hearing … [Read more...] about You Can Trade In Old Hearing Aids For $200 Back From America Hears