by Daniel Lawler The new study shows ‘the potential for serious population-wide hearing loss is very large’, an expert said. Around one billion young people worldwide could be at risk of hearing loss from listening to headphones or attending loud music venues, a large review of the available research estimated on Wednesday. The World Health...
by British Medical Journal Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 1 billion teens and young people are potentially at risk of hearing loss because of their use of headphones and earbuds and attendance at loud music venues, concludes a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health. Governments...
ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MELVILLE, N.Y., June 10, 2021 — As more and more people are taking advantage of music on the go, personal audio systems are pumping up the volume to the detriment of the listener’s hearing. Children, teenagers, and young adults are listening to many hours of music daily at volumes exceeding the...
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY IMAGE: ENGINEERS CONDUCTED EXPERIMENTS WITH “DUMB ” HEADPHONES WITH ESTIMATED PRICES RANGING FROM $2.99 TO $15,000. HEADFI CAN TRANSFORM SUCH HEADPHONES INTO SMART ONES. CREDIT: XIAORAN FAN How do you turn “dumb” headphones into smart ones? Rutgers engineers have invented a cheap and easy way by transforming headphones into sensors that can be...
