Mr Roberts already has to attach a hearing aid to a magnetic plate inserted under his skin every morning.
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".
She went back to her bedroom for her hearing aid and then trudged down to the hall.
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.
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.
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.
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 is an FDA-approved hearing aid, but it is sold online and preprogrammed for typical mild to moderate hearing loss.
It could be a hearing aid, individually tailored to the shape of the user's ear.
She admitted that sometimes she just turns her hearing aid off and goes upstairs to avoid the politics.
Siemens knows this and developed the Aquaris hearing aid, the only one to receive an IP68 rating for continuous submersion underwater (to three feet).
Sharing a classroom with boys aged between five and eight, Kimani is the only pupil to brandish a walking stick and hearing aid.
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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For example, in every state, you need a license to be a barber, a hearing-aid fitter or a pest-control worker.
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.
He was recently fitted for a hearing aid -- one toll of being exposed to many explosions.
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.
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.
ENGADGET: Insound's Lyric hearing aid cozies up right next to your ear drum
Sevy, the owner of several hearing-aid shops and beauty salons, said he had been leaning Republican but wanted to see how Bush would perform under pressure.
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