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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.'"
You know... I've always wanted a more complicated, over-engineered way of controlling the volume of my iPod. The volume control interface is just too damn easy to use.
This just in, Wired is reporting that Bloomberg is working on an invention to help users talk over long distances without shouting and thus save the strain and inevitable hoarseness that comes with it:
Making you think you're crazy is a billion dollar industry.
If I keep reading Slashdot day and night, I'll go blind. :P
But my headphone has gold plated connectors and extra thick and insulated wires for best sounds.
Putting a $6 volume controller in the signal path would make the headphone only good as a $6 headphone!