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Beware of over-amplification

Oct 28th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Information

Be careful not to have your hearing aids turned up too much and put excessive strain on your ears.
If you find yourself wincing at loud noises while wearing your hearing aids, if you start to get ringing in your ears, or if your ears hurt then you should see your audiologist and get them to [...]



Hearing aid manufacturers

Jul 16th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Buying a hearing aid, Information

If you are thinking about buying a hearing aid, it’s good to do a bit of market research to find out what’s available. After all, hearing aids are expensive items and you want to do everything you can to make sure you purchase the right one for you.
When you visit a hearing aid vendor / [...]



Find subtitled videos using Google

May 15th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Information

You can use Google’s video search to find subtitled videos on the web.
Go to the Advanced Search option:

Then simply click the “search only closed captioned videos” checkbox:

Super easy and super useful.



Take your hearing aids out, hear more

Feb 20th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Information, Living with hearing aids

You could hear more by taking your hearing aids out.
How does that work? Well, I was in a meeting yesterday, sat around a table with seven other people – after a while I realised that I wasn’t hearing several of them as well as I normally would be. I did a quick check that the [...]



Phonak CORE technology

Feb 7th, 2008 | By Steve | Category: Information

Phonak’s revolutionary chip technology powers three exciting new Digital Wireless Accessories: iCom brings Bluetooth to the hearing impaired; the myPilot command center provides full-color display feedback; and iCube enables totally CableFree Fitting.The CORE (Communication Optimized Real-audio Engine) technology developed for the chip used in the new Exélia and Naída hearing instruments permits wireless communication between [...]