New Tech to Help Prevent Hearing Loss?

Wired is reporting that Blomberg is working on an invention to help users maintain a greater control over the volume output of portable music devices. Many people have expressed a growing concern about hearing loss in recent years due to the increased use of headphones and exposure to loud music. From the article: "Les Blomberg, executive director of the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse, described hearing loss with a nice analogy: 'If you have a field of grass and you walk on it, you compress the grass and it bends down over the night, and in a few days, it springs back up and is OK again. But if you keep doing that over and over, you wear a path in it. And that's kind of what happens with hearing loss.'"

Comments

You think that suit had a chance?

[Opportunist]

I mean, according to my common sense, blowing loud noise (and music, no matter how good, is just that) into your ears causes deafness. Anyone claiming he didn't know that should probably start going to elementary school again. He might have missed more than just that.

What's next, smokers claiming that ... oh ... umm...

Can I sign up for that suit somehow?