Starkey Laboratories count on destiny
MSNBC - When Mary Landry of Fridley lost most of her hearing five years ago, she refused to consider hearing aids. W hen Mary Landry of Fridley lost most of her hearing five years ago, she refused to consider hearing aids. “My dad had them, but he had so
Lab still has an ear for science
Kane County Chronicle - GENEVA Even after 88 years, Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories remains one of the most notable facilities of its kind in the world. Built in 1918 by Col. George Fabyan, the lab on Route 31 in Geneva still is used for its original purpose to test
Originally published April 2, 2006
Baltimore Sun - RICHMOND HILL, Ga. // His 3-year-old son Nicholas’ first steps, the first time Liam, his newborn, smiled - Staff Sgt. Douglas Piper lived to see those moments. Then his scarred memory erased them. “I can’t remember what they did yesterday,” Piper
Good News For U.P. Residents With Hearing Loss
WLUC TV 6 - New technology is changing the way U.P. Audiologists treat hearing loss. The “Vivatone Totally Open Canal” device delivers sound electronically through a wire while the speaker floats in the ear canal. This eliminates the plugged up feeling that
Viruses ‘trained’ to build tiny batteries
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers trying to make tiny machines have turned to the power of nature, engineering a virus to attract metals and then using it to build minute wires for microscopic batteries. The resulting nanowires can be used in
Sonomax Hearing Healthcare Announces Repurchase of Notes for Shares
Market Wire - MONTREAL, QUEBEC — (MARKET WIRE) — 04/04/2006 — Sonomax Hearing Healthcare Inc. (TSX VENTURE:SHH) announces that it has entered into agreements with ten noteholders to repurchase for cancellation their unsecured convertible notes of Sonomax in the
Crowds storm Brooklyn streets in cop protest
CNN - NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of protesters stormed the streets and set garbage cans on fire in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, claiming police shoved a 75-year-old man and threw him headfirst into a van during a traffic stop. Police denied
Home Events 2006 March
Chronicle - Mar, 28 Russian pianist Mikhail Voskresenky, renowned Russian pianist, performs a concert at 8 p.m. von der Mehden Recital Hall, 875 Coventry Road, on the University of Connecticut campus. Music by Beethoven and Chopin. Admission at the door: $20
Varibel, The Glasses That Hear
Medical News Today - Today a new hearing aid in the form of a pair of glasses was unveiled. These hearing-glasses are called ‘Varibel’ and offer older people the chance to stay active longer - free from the aesthetically unpleasing and technologically limited traditional
Devices Aim at Hearing Loss of Younger Group
Signal - With an entire generation of baby boomers entering their 50s, hearing loss has become a bigger problem than ever, said audiologist Patrice Rifkind of Valencia-based Audiology Associates. There s a huge amount of people that are not wearing