She had the Argus II implanted in her left eye in 2009 after hearing about the device through her work at the New York state Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped.
Karen Thomson, 42, has been fitted with the Bonebridge device after her hearing started to fail.
The product at Natus that he worked on was called ALGO 3i, a device that can screen hearing for both ears simultaneously.
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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When you watch Jony Ive enthuse about the chamfers and the microns in the official Apple video that was shown at the launch event on Wednesday (see above), you are hearing the implicit backstory of not just how the device feels in your hand but how it makes you feel about yourself.
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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.
He successfully implanted his device in normal rhesus monkeys without disturbing their hearing or sense of balance, and he was able to spark the vestibular system so that the monkeys' eyes moved as if they were spinning.
At a preliminary hearing, Apple lawyer Paul Anastassiou said Apple had never claimed the device would work fully on the current 4G network operated by Telstra.
For the deaf and hearing impaired, an app called SpeechTrans Ultimate lets them communicate with hearing people, who speak out loud into the user's mobile device, and the translated text automatically appears.
According to the claims, hearing aids worn by at least two users will work in tandem with a personal computing device to identify user identities, establish a communication link and then swap profiles -- not a list of likes and dislikes, but dynamic audio settings.
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