New dedicated hubs for Deaf children are needed around the country to provide new social spaces, education and support, an expert has said.
Education
Sep 24, 2020
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Using advanced techniques at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan, scientists have created three-dimensional images of the complex interior anatomy of the human ear, information that is key to ...
Other
Jun 26, 2019
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Using both ears to hear increases speech recognition and improves sound localization. In essence, it helps you to identify a friend's voice so you can follow her amusing anecdote over the din of a cocktail party. Ruth Litovsky, ...
Engineering
May 8, 2018
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Enabling blind people to see again is the dream of many neuroscientists. We still have a long way to go to make this happen, but we have also made a lot of progress over the last twenty years, says Richard van Wezel of the ...
Engineering
Oct 18, 2017
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A team of surgeons and engineers of Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern (Switzerland), have developed a high-precision surgical robot for cochlear ...
Robotics
Mar 16, 2017
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Unlike drugs, active implants such as electroceuticals act locally, have fewer side effects and function directly through electrical signals, much like the body itself. At the Medica 2016 trade fair in Düsseldorf, Fraunhofer ...
Engineering
Oct 4, 2016
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Wearers of cochlear implants and hearing aids often have difficulty teasing out what someone is saying over "babble"—the cacophony of other talkers—and other ambient sounds. New York University researchers have devised ...
Engineering
May 3, 2016
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Researchers at the Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía (Technological Institute of Energy, ITE) are developing a bio-battery that uses blood glucose to produce energy. Such a battery would cut down on the number of surgical ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 2, 2016
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Cochlear implants—medical devices that electrically stimulate the auditory nerve—have granted at least limited hearing to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who otherwise would be totally deaf. Existing versions ...
Engineering
Feb 9, 2014
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Tech start-ups could be worth Aus$109 billion (US$111 billion) to the Australian economy by 2033—on a par with retail or education—and create half a million jobs, a report for Google found Tuesday.
Business
Apr 23, 2013
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