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class=171190819-23052009>When the father of a friend of mine died, I helped
clean out the house. He had several $3,000 Widex hearing aids. I tried but
couldn't find any way to resell them so I donated them to a local charity....
who, hearing their interest level they had on the phone, probably threw
them out.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=171190819-23052009>There has got to be an opportunity for hacking
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class=171190819-23052009>I never found a "good" place to donate the hearing aids
to so there is no central repository. There was some audiologist doctor in San
Francisco that accepted them (but I didn't take the time to drive down
there to drop them off). As always, start with the Google. The Ark of San
Francisco does a lot of donation house cleanouts (and the stuff ends up at local
thrift stores)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
noisebridge-discuss-bounces@lists.noisebridge.net
[mailto:noisebridge-discuss-bounces@lists.noisebridge.net] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Mark Cohen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:26 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Andrew Cantino<BR><B>Cc:</B> NoiseBridge Discuss<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Noisebridge-discuss] Hearing augmentation<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV>Not that this is the best or cheapest solution, but I require a
hearing aid and found that the Widex is tunable for specific ranges. I'm able to
hear better than most people without the aid, and tune the response for
different tasks... For example, I have a profile for TV/Movies and one for Music
as well as the standard.
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<DIV>The down side is that if you don't have insurance, one hearing aid is about
$4000 + the remote ($300) *Which is insanely stupid.. It requires pairing,
doesn't use bluetooth, and requires re-pairing when you change the remote
battery. The pairing process requires going to the Audiologist with the tools...
*suck*</DIV>
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<DIV>/Mark</DIV>
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<DIV>On May 22, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Andrew Cantino wrote:</DIV><BR
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hey cyborg and electronics people,<BR><BR>My father is
high-frequency deaf. He used to do a lot of bird watching, but he has
trouble now since he can't hear some of the songs. I was just looking at
this product: <A
href="http://www.nselec.com/songfinder.html">http://www.nselec.com/songfinder.html</A>,
but it costs $800. It seems to me it's just a band-pass filter for
selecting the frequency range to augment, and then electronics to down-shift
that range. It's been a long time since I did electronics. How
hard would this be to build?<BR><BR>This might dove-tail nicely into
augmenting frequency ranges that healthy ears can't hear as
well.<BR><BR>Thanks
everyone!<BR><BR>-Andrew<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Noisebridge-discuss
mailing list<BR><A
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href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>