Modern hearing aids are so packed with technology, it is almost hard to believe how they may accommodate further features. The hearing aids’ design has also significantly changed over the years and such that devices look implausibly small. Can technology...
A thought provoking piece of research emerged out of America this week linking hearing loss with dementia. As with all these things, more research needs to be done, however, the research suggested that with untreated hearing loss, dementia can be...
This weekend, when you are digesting your Sunday lunch, I will have to come in to the office to do the stock take, a mundane few hours of counting endless hearing aids, tubes, domes, packets of batteries, accessories –the list...
While hearing aids vary from one another in terms of their features, type, prices (and even colors!), they all require the use of a device that produces electricity. Perhaps one day hearing aids will be powered by different sources of...
I arrived in this world in 1965, the same year as Brad Pitt and JK Rowling. He got the looks, she got the brains … I did not, so I was forced to make my fame and fortune more modestly...
Amplified phones belong to a group of amplified daily living aids normally refereed to as ALDs or Assistive Listening Devices. The group consists of a number of extra loud aids from alerting devices to doorbells, the most popular of which...
Recently I attended the eCommerce Awards dinner as HearingDirect had been shortlisted in the Best Start-up Company category. The ceremony was at the Gloucester Millennium Hotel in Kensington and we were in the company of such heavyweights as M&S, Ocado,...
Last week I tried to brush up on my non-existent German skills in order to attend the ‘Europäische Union der Hörgeräteakustiker e.V’ 2010 congress. The European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians puts on this major exhibition each year; which attracts...
