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> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: [BP] Books
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> And speaking of dotage, do any of the geezers out there know 
> anything about hearing aids? 

iPod (i Personally own digital). Been using them since I was in 6th
grade (when we could finally afford them, impaired since birth), so I've
seen lots of technology come and go. What's happening now with digital
is A Good Thing.

> (and no, I don't mean the new 
> kind of AIDS you get from listening to too many assholes.)

I thought we'd already established the connection between old AIDS and
assholes.
  
> I've been told I need 'em in both ears.    I'd rather have a 
> goddam ear trumpet like my good friend Mr. Muckle.

No you wouldn't. Trust me. Wait until you try the "restaurant setting"
where with the press of a tiny button, you switch the two directional
microphones in your hearing aid out-of-phase so that all the background
noise they both pick up is cancelled out, and you end up with this
Maxwell Smart Cone of Silence effect where you zero in on the sound
immediately in front of you (like the person talking to you). It will be
the first advantage you have on the fully hearing capable.

They can be tailored like an equalizer to exactly match your hearing
loss frequency profile, the processors now sample the sound about 250
times a second (first generation digital sampled 22x/sec.

So I recommend them.

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