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Like the ebb of tides
Spouses wear on each other
Bliss not guaranteed
Spouses wear on each other
Bliss not guaranteed
Three Berries
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Got a big job
take 4 ibuprofen
preemptively
take 4 ibuprofen
preemptively
Here's something for hard-of-hearing oldtimer's from sciencedaily.com:
Hearing loss has broad health impacts, but professional hearing aids are expensive and require multiple visits to otolaryngologists and audiologists for tuning. These factors lead to major barriers for many to access professional hearing aids. One estimate suggests nearly 75% of people with hearing loss in the United States do not use hearing aids.
"There's also a social stigma associated with hearing aids," says Yen-fu Cheng, the study's corresponding author and an otolaryngologist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. "Many patients are reluctant to wear them because they don't want to appear old. So, we started exploring if there're are more accessible alternatives."
Apple came out with a feature called "Live Listen" in 2016 that allows people to use its wireless earphones, AirPods, and iPhone for sound amplification. The feature makes AirPods functionally similar to a personal sound amplification product, which is designed for people with normal hearing for certain occasions like birdwatching.
Cheng and his team wanted to investigate whether AirPods, which are widely available devices, can serve as alternative hearing aids. The team compared Airpods 2 and AirPods Pro -- the model with a noise canceling feature -- with a type of premium hearing aids and a basic pair of hearing aids. The premium hearing aids cost $10,000, and the basic type cost $1,500. Both models of AirPods are significantly cheaper than hearing aids, with AirPods 2 costing $129 and AirPods Pro costing $249. Notably, AirPods Pro met four out of five technology standards for hearing aids.
The team tested the four devices with 21 participants with mild to moderate hearing loss. The researchers read a short sentence, such as "the electricity bills went up recently," to participants, who were asked to repeat their words verbatim wearing the devices. They found AirPods Pro performed similarly well compared with basic hearing aids in a quiet environment and is slightly inferior to premium hearing aids. AirPods 2, while having the lowest performance among the four, helped participants hear more clearly compared with wearing no hearing aids.
In a noisy environment, AirPods Pro showed comparable performance to premium hearing aids when the noises came from the lateral direction of the participant. But when the noises came from the front of the participants, both AirPods models failed to help participants hear better.
"Two reasons may account for the difference between the two scenarios," says Ying-Hui Lai, the study's co-author and a bioengineer at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taipei. "It may relate to the trajectories soundwaves travel with, as well as the advanced signal processing algorithm by premium hearing aids. This finding will hopefully inspire engineers to design hearing aids and personal sound amplification products that are more sensitive in certain directions." He adds that AirPods Pro appears to perform better than AirPods 2, likely because of its noise-canceling feature.
"Globally, the wireless earphone market is growing rapidly. Some companies are interested in exploring the possibility of designing earbuds with sound amplification features. Our study proves that the idea is plausible," Lai says.
As a clinician, Cheng says persuading patients to use hearing aids is often challenging. "These wireless earbuds are of course not perfect, but they would be a good starting point for many patients who don't have access to professional hearing aids. They will see an increase in quality of life even with these earbuds." Cheng says.
This work is supported by Veterans General Hospitals and University System of Taiwan Joint Research Program, and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Wireless earphones as inexpensive hearing aids
Some commercial earbuds can perform as well as hearing aids. The result, presented November 15 in the journal iScience, could help a large proportion of people with hearing loss access more affordable sound amplification devices.Hearing loss has broad health impacts, but professional hearing aids are expensive and require multiple visits to otolaryngologists and audiologists for tuning. These factors lead to major barriers for many to access professional hearing aids. One estimate suggests nearly 75% of people with hearing loss in the United States do not use hearing aids.
"There's also a social stigma associated with hearing aids," says Yen-fu Cheng, the study's corresponding author and an otolaryngologist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. "Many patients are reluctant to wear them because they don't want to appear old. So, we started exploring if there're are more accessible alternatives."
Apple came out with a feature called "Live Listen" in 2016 that allows people to use its wireless earphones, AirPods, and iPhone for sound amplification. The feature makes AirPods functionally similar to a personal sound amplification product, which is designed for people with normal hearing for certain occasions like birdwatching.
Cheng and his team wanted to investigate whether AirPods, which are widely available devices, can serve as alternative hearing aids. The team compared Airpods 2 and AirPods Pro -- the model with a noise canceling feature -- with a type of premium hearing aids and a basic pair of hearing aids. The premium hearing aids cost $10,000, and the basic type cost $1,500. Both models of AirPods are significantly cheaper than hearing aids, with AirPods 2 costing $129 and AirPods Pro costing $249. Notably, AirPods Pro met four out of five technology standards for hearing aids.
The team tested the four devices with 21 participants with mild to moderate hearing loss. The researchers read a short sentence, such as "the electricity bills went up recently," to participants, who were asked to repeat their words verbatim wearing the devices. They found AirPods Pro performed similarly well compared with basic hearing aids in a quiet environment and is slightly inferior to premium hearing aids. AirPods 2, while having the lowest performance among the four, helped participants hear more clearly compared with wearing no hearing aids.
In a noisy environment, AirPods Pro showed comparable performance to premium hearing aids when the noises came from the lateral direction of the participant. But when the noises came from the front of the participants, both AirPods models failed to help participants hear better.
"Two reasons may account for the difference between the two scenarios," says Ying-Hui Lai, the study's co-author and a bioengineer at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taipei. "It may relate to the trajectories soundwaves travel with, as well as the advanced signal processing algorithm by premium hearing aids. This finding will hopefully inspire engineers to design hearing aids and personal sound amplification products that are more sensitive in certain directions." He adds that AirPods Pro appears to perform better than AirPods 2, likely because of its noise-canceling feature.
"Globally, the wireless earphone market is growing rapidly. Some companies are interested in exploring the possibility of designing earbuds with sound amplification features. Our study proves that the idea is plausible," Lai says.
As a clinician, Cheng says persuading patients to use hearing aids is often challenging. "These wireless earbuds are of course not perfect, but they would be a good starting point for many patients who don't have access to professional hearing aids. They will see an increase in quality of life even with these earbuds." Cheng says.
This work is supported by Veterans General Hospitals and University System of Taiwan Joint Research Program, and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
@CosmicGiggle …I’m 61 years young … I know it’s not polite to ask a lady but are you an old fart?
My hearing is mostly great dept for occasional tinnitus, but my vision sucks from decades of being under the high intensity discharge lamps
yeah, I'm an elderly old fart, aged to perfection with great hearing and lots of Tinnitus.
Tinnitus is a good thing as people all over the world consider it to be a form of 'Music of The Spheres' and meditate on the sound to reach higher realms.
As far as the eyes, get the cataract op, things will improve.
Tinnitus is a good thing as people all over the world consider it to be a form of 'Music of The Spheres' and meditate on the sound to reach higher realms.
As far as the eyes, get the cataract op, things will improve.
I combine psychedelics with marijuana and then I get into some Tantric humming
That’s an old fart tip
thanks for the tip, I'm not going to ask any questions!
Lol..Run silent run deep
i'm too lazy to hum. got other stuff takes up my time and energy. the psychedelics and weed sound great though!
What's so special about humming?
.......... it stimulates the Vagas Nerve, which has a lot of spiritual and physical bennies.
.......... it stimulates the Vagas Nerve, which has a lot of spiritual and physical bennies.
St. Phatty
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Leave the Farting to the Pro's.
4 week old kittens.
Get a 4 week old kitten so that, when you blame the dog, it can blame the cat.
4 week old kittens.
Get a 4 week old kitten so that, when you blame the dog, it can blame the cat.
Blue Rhino
Active member
With the summer party/BBQ season upon us just remember, if you run out of ice you can always use gin.
i was going to, but figured i'd die LONG before i got to retirement age. and i probably would have if i'd kept drinking and riding old Harleys late at night, shitfaced as a wooly mammoth. now it's too late...
IMHOi was going to, but figured i'd die LONG before i got to retirement age. and i probably would have if i'd kept drinking and riding old Harleys late at night, shitfaced as a wooly mammoth. now it's too late...
It's never "too late", it's just more difficult.
I'm turning 80 in a few days.
Between anti-social in-security, a reverse mortgage, and a still working, child-bride wife, we are living high on the hog in Hawaii.
Still have some extra income. I buy things from people that are "getting rid" of them at garage sales and then sell to people who actually want them, yah?
Being "retired" gives you time to take advantage of all kine opportunities.
Kick back, and look around.
"There's treasure everywhere" -- Calvin
too late to amass what i SHOULD have had, but not too late to improve my lot, true. going to go back to work soon. wife is gonna need help paying for college loans until they are forgiven after the ten year payments are done. only another couple of years for that, and should about have the house paid for by then as well. "work till i die" has been my motto for some time now.
