Hearing in an Apple World: The Ears Have It
The first MFi Hearing aid post promised “an Alice in Wonderland hearing device tour of Amazing Apple Applications.” Before starting today’s tour, let’s check out one invention hanging around outside the Apple gate. The Banana Cellular Phone Cover (patented 8/08/06), pictured right, is “characterized by elongated curving shape resembling a banana,” according to inventor James Laird Rickard.…
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Location, Location, Location
Last week’s post gave a rambling answer to a Reader’s Question from Worried Mom asking about survival of private practice. The Answer went down the old bricks-and-mortar path, consolidated into a set of reflections that I (jokingly) referred to as my Unified Location Theory– 17 years in the making and no better now than it was…
Read MoreTaking Hearing Aids Mainstream: Ear-Level Gadgets to Boost Prosperity and Health
“Dress up and put on diamonds even to answer the phone, as it changes the way you are.” Mae West Let’s take a break from the hearing aid history series and go check out the future of hearing aids. It’s probably safe to say that all economists agree that technology drives production and prosperity. In most…
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