KT Tunstall makes most of ‘Idol’ connection
CNN - Her physicist father and schoolteacher mother chose not to have a stereo or TV at home because her younger brother is deaf and the noise interfered with his hearing aid. Even so, Tunstall played instruments as if it was second nature. She started
Acacia Technologies Enters into License Agreements with Adobe
dBusinessNews.com - memory cache coherency, credit card fraud protection, database management, data encryption & product activation, digital media transmission (DMT ), digital video production, dynamic manufacturing modeling, enhanced Internet navigation, hearing aid
Nanotech will let us wear batteries and get 150 mpg
USA Today - They could be used to create smart credit cards or lightweight hearing-aid batteries. Eventually, Belcher hopes to weave battery cells into textile fibers to create battery-powered fabrics. Soldiers might plug night-vision goggles into their uniforms
VoIP Regulation: What Lessons Can We Learn From Wireless?
TMCnet - At that time, it was not feasible to transmit calls that had been placed through text telephone (TTY) devices over digital technology, and later, hearing-aid users found that many digital handsets caused interference to their hearing aids. Wireless
Chrysler will offer union workers up to $100K to leave
Detroit News - They would receive a pre-tax lump sum of $100,000, six months of hospital, medical, surgical, drug, vision and hearing aid benefits but no dental coverage, according to the document. Last Friday, Chrysler detailed early retirement packages aimed at
Vietnam Pilot to Get Highest Award
Washington Post - Retired Army Lt. Col. Bruce P. Crandall wears a hearing aid and speaks haltingly at times. But when asked about a harrowing 1965 battle in South Vietnam’s central highlands, his voice resounds with a resolve that leaves little doubt why, today at the
Jesus Price Supastar
allhiphop.com - A year and a half later, Price’s Jesus Price Supastar (Duck Down) finds the “brokest rapper you know” after he cashed his checks, and as he says on “Hearing Aid,” lost it in a dice game. With a sharpened wit and even defter rhymes, Sean Price raises
European Stocks to Watch
CNBC - William Demant (up 7.82%) The Danish hearing aid maker William Demant posted a 15% rise in 2006 operating profit on Thursday and forecast 9 to 12% revenue growth in 2007 on the back of a new wireless product, sending shares higher. Sacyr Vallehermoso
Part 1 of 2: Annual Event Celebrates Hearing Implants
Axcess News - She began losing her hearing at age 5, when she received her first hearing aid, and was deaf by age 15. “As a small girl, I can remember I picked up on my mother’s self-consciousness of my hearing loss,” Burns said. “And back in 1950, that hearing aid
Hear this: Don’t stick it in your ear One of the most dangerous things
Seattle Post Intelligencer - I’ve pulled hearing-aid batteries out, beads from necklaces. The weirdest thing I’ve pulled out of a person’s ear was crack cocaine when I was a resident at Bellevue Hospital. I had to turn it over to the cops.” The outer part of the human ear is