{"id":3354,"date":"2011-03-15T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2011-03-15T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:13:18","slug":"i-cant-hear-you-im-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/03\/i-cant-hear-you-im-eating.html","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t hear you, I&#8217;m eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3356\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3356\" href=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/03\/i-cant-hear-you-im-eating.html\/soundbite-03-15-2011\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3356\" title=\"soundbite-03-15-2011\" src=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soundbite-03-15-2011.jpg\" alt=\"SoundBite\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soundbite-03-15-2011.jpg 180w, https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/soundbite-03-15-2011-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The device is nearly invisible when worn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometimes technology comes up with odd things that are way more useful than <a href=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/03\/this-camera-sucks.html\" target=\"_blank\">tools for hygienic espionage<\/a>.\u00a0 Case in point is the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonitusmedical.com\/product\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoundBite<\/a> dental hearing system.<\/p>\n<p>Bone conduction systems have been around for awhile now, and are effective at restoring hearing when there is damage to the auditory nerve of only one ear, but the other is working well. In such cases, conventional hearing aids are useless.\u00a0 However, existing systems require an external device to be bolted on to the side of your head.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that probably is an overly dramatic description, but as someone who has complete loss of hearing on one side, when they explain they are going to attach something to your skull with a drill, that&#8217;s kind of how it sounds.\u00a0 At least so far, that solution isn&#8217;t more appealing than suffering the loss of all spatial hearing ability.<\/p>\n<p>However, this device requires no surgery or permanent attachment of any kind.\u00a0 The receiver unit is molded to your teeth and just pops in when you use the device.\u00a0 It wirelessly picks up signals transmitted by the small microphone clipped behind the decorative ear, and passes the sound into your jaw where it resonates into your head for the other ear to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, with enough practice, a user can regain a good share of their spatial hearing.\u00a0 It would certainly be nice to not have to spin around in circles looking for who&#8217;s talking any more, or have to turn my head ridiculously far around to hear a quiet comment from the person seated to my right.\u00a0 Unless we&#8217;re eating I suppose.\u00a0 Then the device would be in my pocket and I could still only hear half the table.\u00a0 Then again, maybe I&#8217;d be so riveted by the conversations around me I&#8217;d eat less and listen more.\u00a0 Yeah&#8230; probably not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The receiver unit is molded to your teeth where it wirelessly picks up signals transmitted by the small microphone clipped behind the decorative ear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,8],"tags":[111,110,107],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-madscience","category-sliceoflife","tag-brain-surgery","tag-health","tag-odd-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}