#Hearing loss

Author: Andrew Heinzman / Source: How-To Geek Conversations about headphone-induced hearing loss have faded away, but headphones and earbuds still post a serious risk to your ears. How loud is too loud, and how do you protect your ears without giving up music? The Threshold for Hearing Damage is

Source: Good News Network Hearing impairment can often serve as a social barrier for those who don’t know how to speak sign language – but in this little Massachusetts town, sign language has actually brought the community together. 2-year-old Samantha Savitz is deaf, but that doesn’t stop her

Author: Andrew Heinzman / Source: reviewgeek.com Google is an undisputed leader in voice recognition software, but that software has been used almost exclusively for the Google Assistant. Now, Google is using voice recognition to help the hearing impaired. This morning, Google released two new

Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network Deaf people can now enjoy live theatrical performances more than ever before thanks to these new “smart caption glasses”. The Royal National Theater in London has been piloting the glasses with their audience members who may be deaf or hard of

Author: Brian McEvoy / Source: Hackaday When auditory cells are modified to receive light, do you see sound, or hear light? To some trained gerbils at University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany under the care of [Tobias Moser], the question is moot. The gerbils were instructed to move to a