by Alpha Hearing | Dec 16, 2019 | Industry News
Jacket allows deaf people to ‘feel’ the music by Hasan Chowdhury of the telegraph.co.uk 9 Oct 2019. A high-tech jacket is giving deaf people the chance to “feel music” through an immersive experience that aims to open the doors of gigs and concerts to the...
by Alpha Hearing | Nov 22, 2019 | Industry News
Hearing Aid Evolution – An Imagined Retrospective Source: HearingLikeMe.comAs a hearing aid wearer, I’ve always been fascinated with the evolution of the hearing aid. The device has come a long way in just a few hundred years. With technology evolving so fast, who the...
by Michael Wong | Feb 4, 2015 | Industry News
As audiologists, when caring for our patients, it is important to not only treat the effects of hearing impairment but also explore the social and health impacts of residual hearing disability. It is only through this holistic care that we are able to give the most...
by Michael Wong | Jan 6, 2015 | Industry News
In an apparent first, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine, found that hearing aids can help maintain balance. This study appears to shows that it is sound and not your balance system in the inner ear that helps postural stability. In the study,...
by Michael Wong | Dec 18, 2014 | Industry News
People suffering tinnitus have often been advised to avoid caffeine because it is seen as a risk or exacerbating factor for tinnitus. Evidence in medical literature have been limited on this link with a recent study demonstrating no improvement in tinnitus symptoms...
by Michael Wong | Dec 10, 2014 | Industry News
Engineers at the University of Texas are pioneering the technology for a new generation of hypersensitive hearing aids that use intelligent microphones to select only those sounds or conversations that the wearer wants to hear. The research is based on observation of...
