Now Hear This

Creative Commons Weatherman90 at en.wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons   Not too long ago, Asius Technologies Founder Stephen Ambrose recorded a heart felt video letter to famous AC/DC rocker Brian Johnson after reading that he has had to stop touring with he band due to hearling loss.       The video went viral, to the attention of Mr. Johnson, and in May the two gentlemen met in Southern California to see if he could be helped.  According to Stephen, "What a gracious man; He and his wife Brenda invited me to visit them next week. If anyone...

  We saw this post at Healthy Hearing and liked it so much we had to improve upon it with links and images for annotation. The History of AudiologyWhen did audiology begin? It depends on who you ask. It's clear that audiology as a profession really began taking off in the 1920s when technology was advanced enough to design the first audiometers to measure hearing, though the term "audiology" wasn't used until 1946. Yet even thousands of years ago, people began investigating hearing, hearing loss and its causes. Here's a timeline of important events in audiological history:1550 BC - There...

  It became clear to Asius Technologies many years ago that an ear bud in your ear blocks your ear canal from the rest of the world, which means the atmosphere.  So a different pressure is in your ear that remains constant when there is no sound being pumped through.   When there is, the pressure is increased so the air has no place to go except deeper into your ear canal, where it meets the delicate membrane known as the "ear drum." Over time, damage occurs to the ear drum, and a person's sense of hearing is weakened.  The...