The nura headphones aren't your typical over-ear cans. They also rock an in-ear bud inside each cup and tune the music to the individual wearer. We got to try out a prototype last year, and now the production version has been launched. Though stocks are limited for 2017.
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Chronic middle ear disease can lead to infection, pain, hearing loss and perforated eardrums, and may take several rounds of surgery to address the problems. Now an Australian team of researchers has developed the ClearDrum, a silk implant that can repair a damaged eardrum with just one procedure.
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Earplugs may be handy for blocking out unwanted noises, but what happens when you want to hear some of what's going on, or even hear every little bit of it? Well, you pull the plugs out of your ears, of course. In the case of Knops, however, you can leave them in and just "turn up the volume."
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The Audeara headphones are aimed at making music sound better, not just louder or needlessly thunderous. After a short hearing test, the headphones adapt the output to match the user and that tailored sound profile is then stored on the headphones.
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We start out with only about 15,000 sound-processing hair cells in each cochlea, and once any of them are gone, they're gone for good. There may now be hope for restoring that lost hearing, however, as scientists have reported a new method of regrowing hair cells in substantial numbers.
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Blind people have been reported to be able to learn to use echolocation to sense their surroundings. Now, research out of LMU Munich suggests that almost anyone could pick up the skill to estimate how big a room is. The team also studied which parts of the brain activate during the process.
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Last year we covered a wickedly simple product called QuietOn: earplugs with built-in active noise cancellation (ANC). This week at CES 2017, we got our first hands-on.
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In the recent past, we've seen systems that track eye movements in order to determine if a concussion has occurred. Now, scientists from Illinois' Northwestern University are suggesting that the way in which the brain processes sound may be an even better indicator.
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What if you could turn the volume of environmental noise up and down selectively? You would be able to hear conversations in noisy places, listen to real-world media at exactly the setting you’d like, and eliminate intrusive background noise. New Bose “Hearphones” could make this a reality.
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Meniere’s disease is a debilitating condition, causing severe dizzy spells. While there is a treatment, it can cause permanent loss of hearing. Now, however, it turns out that a steroid injection to the affected inner ear may be just as effective, but without any side effects.
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