Below you'll find a list of all posts from August, 2018
Hearing aid technologies have changed a lot since the first electric hearing aid hit the market in 1898. Created by Miller Reese Hutchison, the Aukouphone used a carbon transmitter to amplify sound for the hard of hearing. Hutchison was able to develop the Aukouphone in part because of rapid new developments in telephone and microphone technologies which allowed for sound …
In this day and age, cellphone technologies are faster, stronger, and more technically advanced. Our cellphones are at once smaller and more efficient, and larger and capable of incredible computing power. For people with hearing loss, however, cellphone technologies do not necessarily improve communication. People with untreated hearing loss and those with moderate to severe hearing loss can in fact …