If You Ask Me by Guinn Sweet
Mineral Wells Index - This time involved all three places with one being a utilitarian drive-by at the fishing camper to pick up his hearing aids left there from his last fishing visit. The aggravation started early as we drove south from Weatherford toward Granbury. We
Help in hearing goes high tech
Los Angeles Daily News - The systems will start at $8,000, according to engadgetmobile.com, about double the cost of conventional hearing aids. Epic Hearing Healthcare and other advocates have succeeded in pressing the cell phone industry to make new phones
Vets come to aid of brethren
Register-Mail - White said the proceeds will be used to purchase Lifelines, prescriptions, glasses, hearing aids, gasoline (trips to doctor/hospital), heat and/or electricity, and meals, just to name a few items. “I know we will not be able to help all the veterans
Skeleton 2.0: Bones Transmitting Data
Medagadget.com - Bone is known to be a great conductor of sound, but so far it has only been used to transmit analogue signals in applications such as checking how bone is healing after a fracture, and in hearing aids that transmit sound from outside the skull to the
Health Care
PR.com - America Hears (www.americahears.com) is a 26-year-old, American-owned-and-operated manufacturer of hearing aids located in Bristol,
Amy Winehouse Makes Me Nauseous
Daily Blabber - If you’re that superficial, I wonder who’d want you for a friend. Do you pick your friends by the way they look? Crooked teeth, glasses, hearing aids, bad skin need not apply?
Being deaf and blind hasn’t held me back
Cambridge News - Fitted with gigantic hearing aids - a large battery box strapped to the stomach, linked to earpieces by a pair of thick wires - she and her sister felt horribly self-conscious. “Technology has come such a long way since then,” says Pauline. “But can
Slaying defendant will drop civil suit
Monterey County Herald - On Thursday, Sillman noted Kenney’s difficulty in hearing and asked if he would need hearing aids during the preliminary proceeding. Nolan said he was having his client evaluated to determine the extent of his impairment. Virginia Hennessey can be
Swing time
Pueblo Chieftain - One ear is a little better than the other, but she still requires hearing aids for everyday life. “If I don’t have the hearing aids, everything is kind of muffled,” she said. When someone has to dance, a speed bump like that isn’t going to stop them
Product design, nature’s way
CNN Money - In a few years, we’ll see hearing aids that mimic the auditory mechanism of Ormia ochracea, a small yellow fly. And a company called Novomer is transforming carbon dioxide into a kind of biodegradable plastic using tricks it learned from the way