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Editor’s Note: Today’s post continues a discussion on the evolution of hearing aid technology by Abigail Farmer and Bruno Sarda.    The Transistor (Modern) Era   The next generation of hearing aids quickly adopted the new transistor technology that Bell Laboratories had introduced in 1948. The first transistor hearing aid was introduced by Sonotone in 1952. Early transistors had many

Editor’s Note: Today’s post continues a discussion on the evolution of hearing aid technology by Abigail Farmer and Bruno Sarda.  The First Electric Hearing Aids   Electrified hearing devices appeared around 1900, following the inventions some twenty years earlier of carbon microphones by Thomas Edison and the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. Electrical hearing aids were actually the primary technology

Editor’s Note: Today’s post continues a discussion on the evolution of hearing aid technology by Abigail Farmer and Bruno Sarda.    Going Beyond Human Abilities   The second thread in the pursuit of human enhancement does not focus on meeting existing societal expectations of what “normal” function is, but rather on exceeding the norm, and ultimately to change it by

Editor’s Note:  Hearing Health and Technology Matters is pleased to bring our readers a series of posts utilizing a multidimensional approach to How Hearing Aid Technology Has Evolved in Society, and Why. This is a unique perspective from that traditionally presented, coming from individuals having no previous contact with the hearing aid industry, audiology, or having any kind of investment in

By Victoria Adshead   Hearing aids are not only good for correcting hearing loss, but in fact contribute to better and more active lives, better quality of life and better overall health. Although hearing care professionals know this from their patients’ testimonials, this is the first time the EuroTrak UK survey can state this from the analysis of 15,000 people. Now

Editor’s Note: Today’s post by Patricia Gaffney, AuD, continues the ongoing discussion over the cost of audiology education that has been addressed in multiple posts at HHTM over the years, including a 4–part series in Hearing Economics in 2013. In today’s post, Dr. Gaffney brings us some interesting data to consider and provides a look at how student loan amounts carried by AuD students and grads

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is from a popular series of posts written by former HHTM editor, Robert Martin, PhD., offering some great clinical tips to dispensing professionals. We thought it was worth sharing again with our readers in case they missed it.   If you are an Audiologist, it is easy to delude yourself into thinking that people will listen to you and

A research team at Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University has developed experimental software that allows for planning and prediction of the success of cochlear implant surgery through the use of state-of-the-art imaging and simulation technology. This research, which forms part of the European HEAR-EU project, was carried out jointly by experts and European manufacturing firms, who worked together for three years

Editor’s Note: Today’s post from Geoff Cooling is Part 2 on the Brand of Hearing Healthcare.    Collaboration Across the Profession   In order to change the brand of hearing healthcare, we as a profession internationally need to collaborate. This is something that needs to be done through professional organisations across the world. I have chosen the term hearing healthcare profession for a

By Geoff Cooling   We discuss brand a lot at our company because understanding the brand of our customers is an imperative for what we do. We know that the brand we represent on any online marketing we undertake has to be exactly the same as the brand feels when a prospect enters the practice and actually interacts with the people. Therefore, we