Tag: HEARING

Last summer, researchers from the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston concluded that teen hearing loss has drastically increased over the last 20 years. The scientists based their conclusions on separate, extensive studies conducted for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The first survey analyzed the hearing capabilities of 2,500 adolescents between ...

What? We couldn't hear our parents when they told us rock-and-roll would make us deaf, and teens today still ignore the dangers of loud (but inherently awesome) noises. A recent nationwide study found that teenage hearing loss has increased drastically over the past 20 years -- with one in five teens now suffering slight hearing loss. The number of teens incapable of hearing levels from 16- to ...

Engineers at the University of Washington are currently testing a new device that, if successful, could drastically alter the ways in which deaf and hearing-impaired people use cell phones to communicate. The tool, called MobileASL, uses compressed video signals and motion detection technology to discern American Sign Language, and then transmits images across cellular networks. So far, UW's team ...

Today, most people suffering from hearing loss can choose to either buy a hearing aid, or, in extreme cases, have a cochlear implant placed in their problematic ear. Both options, however, have their drawbacks. Hearing aids can be cumbersome, implants can completely destroy any hearing left in an ear, and neither method ever replicates the same quality of perception that the natural ear allows. ...

You've spent hours writing quality comedic YouTube material and perfecting your delivery, but when you finally watch your masterpiece, your voice doesn't sound deep and smooth like you'd expected. Instead, you sound like a whiny, pubescent goob. What's the deal? PopSci.com recently asked Vanderbilt University audiology professor why a person's recorded voice sounds different than what they hear ...

We've covered surveys in the past that indicate teens don't care much about their hearing. Apparently, they'd rather have their tunes at the volume they want and deal with the repercussions later than turn the music down (and potentially avoid a decidedly unstylish hearing aid in the future). If you needed any more proof of the kids' aversion to quiet, there's a new study that demonstrates ...

Golf is not considered a dangerous game. If anything, it is the sport over-protective mothers make their children play so they never get hurt. Those moms may want to re-think that strategy after they read this... Experts are warning that thin-faced titanium drivers, those popular behemoths that give you an extra 1000 yards off the tee, may actually make the user go deaf. The drivers are so ...

As with everything in life, there's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that we've found some headphones that will keep you, your hearing and your social life safe when using them. We stumbled across The Air Drives Interactive Earphones in the sea of gadgetry and tricky tech publicists at this year's CES in Las Vegas. To be honest, at first we were just humoring the friendly Air ...

We've reported before on the possible negative effects of gadgets on hearing, and everyone should know at this point that listening to your iPod for too long with the volume cranked more or less guarantees you'll be rocking some sort of hearing aid in your later years. Now it seems Apple's taking steps to prevent that, securing a patent that will automatically decrease the volume on devices ...

A disconcerting report, released this morning from researchers at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India, revealed that people who talk on a cell phone for more than an hour a day were found to have suffered losses of high-frequency hearing. While that may not sound so bad, such hearing loss actually results in an inability to hear consonants like F ...

With Sanjaya Malakar no longer the force he once was, it seems the tender eardrums of America's youth are once again safe from unnecessary harm. But sadly, that's not the case, reports NPR. Today's 'Morning Edition' broadcast spotlighted Dr. Sharon Kujawa of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and her crusade across Boston's school system to inform young people about the dangers of listening ...