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The trouble with ordinary hearing aids: fixed by TV ears
by Guy J Kewney | posted on 04 September 2006
For a partially deaf person, watching TV is not much improved by a hearing aid, because it amplifies all noise in the TV room. Enter a wireless device which feeds just the TV sound track, and tunes the audio for hearing loss sufferers. As
Coolest Gadgets put it:
For the average person, this gadget is totally useless and looks pretty extremely geeky. However, for a very niche market, this thing is great. For those who have absolutely no idea what TV Ears is, it’s a TV hearing aid.
Background sound elimination is done via the microchip built into the headset. It lowers sound below 100 Hz (the background sound) and raises sound above 1,000 Hz (speech).
Further details on the TVEars web site.
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