http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/ Engadget Comments for Bone-anchored hearing aids filter out noise, finally ready for human implantation http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
Go back to your bunker.]]>Aug 10th 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 11th 2009 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
win]]>Aug 10th 2009 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/:P]]>Aug 10th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
either way, awesome!]]>Aug 10th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/The article says Australia...
But they have government run health care systems.
So they could not be on the fore front of anything.
They must be busy killing old people and babies with birth defects...
The logic they must do this is irrefutable.
Just ask Sarah Palin.]]>Aug 10th 2009 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
The US leads the way in all things! Don't believe us? Just ask us! ]]>Aug 10th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
If you are saying a private hospital or private funding is operating successfully within the government run medical system in Australia then that must wrong.
I have gotten e-mails about it and such...
There is no way all that stuff could thrive under government health care.
Aside from the irrefutable logic showing this could not happen... it is socialist... so god hates them.
I don't know what you think you are seeing in the world.
But I have been assured it could not be happening.
]]>Aug 10th 2009 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
"I can hear again! I can hear the bacteria eating my brain!"]]>Aug 10th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/However on the topic of plugging MP3 players into the device. I have been able to do this more than 10 years ago with mini discs and walkman. With my cochlear I can plug in the ipod with a different lead, then I can choose whether to have the music sound 100% cancelling out any other noise, or I can turn up the volume of background noise, e.g 50% ipod 50% noise, or 25% ipod 75% noise. The volume of the ipod is changed using the ipod itself.]]>Aug 10th 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/ surface. But make sure that nobody sees you. If you need to
contact me by codec, the frequency is 140.85. When you want to use
the codec push the Select button. When we need to contact you the
codec will beep. When you hear that noise push the Select button.
The codec directly stimulates the small bones of your ear, no one
but you will be able to hear it.

Snake : Got it, okay, I'm ready to go.
]]>Aug 10th 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
The implant surgery to which this article refers is actually a titanium implant placed direclty into the skull, about 6 - 8cm back from the ear itself. The BAHA hearing aid attaches to this titanium screw and bypasses the skin & epidermal layers to hit the bone directly, from whence the signal is transferred into the cochlear for processing.

Studies have shown that even those with bilateral conductive deafness benefit enormously from two of these implants, one on either side of the head, and can often achieve hearing at a level approximately the same as a single-sided, regular-hearing person.

And unless I'm missing something, BAHA surgery has been performed since the late 1970s, nothing new about it except the actual hearing aids themselves, which are freakin' fantastic (look up Entific for those of you in the US).]]>Aug 10th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
I wonder if these guys can do seomthing about that.]]>Aug 10th 2009 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 10th 2009 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
The BAHA has been around for at least the last 4 years and is not a fully implantable device, nor does it use noise-cancelling technology in a manner similar to noise cancelling headphones (although air conduction hearing aids do use similar technology in their feedback cancellation systems).

The BAHA consists of a titanium screw and abutment which is implanted into the skull. Titanium is capable of osseointegration, which basically means that the screw is integrated into the bone when it heals, while the skin grows around the abutment. After the healing process is complete, an external processor is then clipped to the abutment. An external processor allows for regular maintainance, and easy removal and adjustment and battery replacement.

That the manufacturer is touting the 'noise-cancellation abilities' of their new device is more a reflection of the fact that advanced signal processing is now possible with the updated processor, unlike their first generation device. On the other hand, noise cancellation technologies are touted as being the greatest thing sinced sliced bread by every hearing aid manufacturer, yet no peer-reviewed studies have shown any more than minor improvements in speech understanding with noise cancellationt technologies, and these improvements have been limited to very specific listening laboratory testing situations that tend not to generalise well to everyday life.

Also, the comment that cochlear implants (CIs) have 'become more effective in lab tests' suggests that they aren't already in widespread usage. As of 2007 over 200,000 profoundly deafened individuals have received cochlear implants from Cochlear Ltd (makers of the BAHA) alone.

Their usage is restricted not because of strict medical testing, but because of their high cost (>US$30,000 per implant, each device is handmade) and current last resort status, as acoustic hearing is preferable to electrical stimulation with current speech processing strategies both in terms of the quality of sound (listening through a CI is very robotic) and outcomes (CI users typically perform at the level of individuals with a severe hearing loss, even with the implant).

CIs are not a magic cure, but rather welcome solution for individuals whose residual hearing is no longer capable of supporting 'good' speech perception.]]>Aug 10th 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/
Protect Your Ears, people! ]]>Aug 10th 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Although you have most facts straight, you're wrong about one major point. BAHA CAN be used for people who have sensorineural hearing loss in ONE ear. My daughter was implanted with the abutment for her BAHA at age 6. She has profound unilateral hearing loss due to a misformed cochlea in one ear. She wears her BAHA on the deaf side and the BAHA picks up sound from that direction and conducts it through the bone in her skull to her good ear.]]>Aug 11th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/10/bone-anchored-hearing-aids-filter-out-noise-finally-ready-for-h/Aug 11th 2009 6:34PM