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.
Clinton was fitted Friday morning for an "in-canal" hearing aid which should help him, McCurry said.
He was recently fitted for a hearing aid -- one toll of being exposed to many explosions.
She went back to her bedroom for her hearing aid and then trudged down to the hall.
She admitted that sometimes she just turns her hearing aid off and goes upstairs to avoid the politics.
After all, other kinds of medical equipment, like crutches and hearing aid batteries qualify for the tax break.
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.
In 1952, the first transistor hearing aid was marketed in the United States.
It is an FDA-approved hearing aid, but it is sold online and preprogrammed for typical mild to moderate hearing loss.
Install an induction loop - with 2.5m hearing aid users in the UK, there will almost certainly be some in any congregation.
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.
He said people with hearing loss used a hearing aid in only 15% of cases in the US "so it is very undertreated".
Paul Hewson, Dave Evans and Adam Clayton answered the ad, with Hewson taking the name Bono Vox after a local hearing aid store.
Siemens knows this and developed the Aquaris hearing aid, the only one to receive an IP68 rating for continuous submersion underwater (to three feet).
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.
Unlike two-way, three-way, four-way or so-called "hybrid" armature driver (hearing aid type) earphones, there are no electronic or comb filtering artifacts, no phase issues, and no crossover dropouts.
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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".
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.
ENGADGET: Insound's Lyric hearing aid cozies up right next to your ear drum
It's not quite implantable, but Insound Medical's new Lyric hearing aid is about as close as you can get, with it designed to squeeze in deep in your ear canal and sit just a few millimeters from your ear drum.
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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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The batteries themselves make use of the same zinc air technology used in hearing aid batteries, and apparently have the highest energy density of any portable consumer power solution, which translates to about three times the runtime of a similarly sized alkaline or lithium ion battery.
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