The third company that Fay worked for is a hearing aid company called EarLens Corporation.
It could be a hearing aid, individually tailored to the shape of the user's ear.
He was recently fitted for a hearing aid -- one toll of being exposed to many explosions.
Mackenzie is partially deaf, wears a hearing aid and communicates through sign language.
Mr Roberts already has to attach a hearing aid to a magnetic plate inserted under his skin every morning.
He said people with hearing loss used a hearing aid in only 15% of cases in the US "so it is very undertreated".
While these kinds of batteries are too ungainly to power a hearing aid or a cellphone, they could be made to store lots of electricity.
Possible features include a binocular heads up display, corrective lenses, a hearing aid app, color blindness correction, even an app to aid those with macular eye disease.
The presence of a non-obtrusive means of sound amplification creates the possibility that the device could be used as a hearing aid for those with low level hearing loss.
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Inokawa, sprightly despite her years and still not needing spectacles or a hearing aid, volunteers to help out with the lunches every day from six to 10 in the morning.
Working as a salesman for Nikon, Simon tinkered at home with several gadgets, including a hearing aid for his grandmother, before deciding to set up his own shop back in 1977.
The device itself is what you might imagine a hearing aid to look like, if it was given the sports treatment, which makes it attractive to younger folk, and those of an active disposition.
The reason most people who needed a test gave for not arranging one was "that they think they might be told they need to wear a hearing aid and do not want to wear one".
BETHESDA, Md. (AllPolitics, Oct. 3) -- President Bill Clinton was fitted for a hearing aid to help him hear better in crowded rooms and had a small cyst removed from his chest Friday during his annual medical exam.
For example, in every state, you need a license to be a barber, a hearing-aid fitter or a pest-control worker.
Paul Hewson, Dave Evans and Adam Clayton answered the ad, with Hewson taking the name Bono Vox after a local hearing aid store.
While this may cost more than a generic, mass produced hearing aid, a customized fit with both comfort and functionality is now possible.
Sharing a classroom with boys aged between five and eight, Kimani is the only pupil to brandish a walking stick and hearing aid.
That, the company says, not only allows for the wearer to hear much more natural sounds since they don't have to be amplified as much, but allows them to wear the hearing aid for 24 hours a day.
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It also brings to mind a longstanding situation that persists in darkening an otherwise bright picture of post-Soviet Polish capitalism: that is, the current dispute between Telekomunikacja Polska S.A (Polish Telecom) and DPTG, a unit of Danish headset and hearing-aid maker GN Store Nord.
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Not surprisingly for a company that makes phones and tablets, the hearing aid wouldn't always have to do the heavy lifting, either: iOS devices could handle some of the on-the-fly conversion, and pre-recorded speech could receive advance treatment to speed up the process.
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Twelve guides will aid people with both sight and hearing loss with a range of issues, including the use of computers, telephones and public transport.
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