{"id":6705,"date":"2019-10-18T10:13:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2022-06-07T12:40:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:40:17","slug":"technological-innovations-in-hearing-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/technological-innovations-in-hearing-aids\/","title":{"rendered":"Technological Innovations in Hearing Aids"},"content":{"rendered":"
The majority of people with hearing loss<\/a> in Tucson can benefit from wearing hearing aids\u2014yet many don\u2019t. Some worry over a perceived stigma or are doubtful that the devices will improve their hearing, but with the technological innovations hearing aids have undergone over the years, those fears are ungrounded.<\/p>\n The first hearing aids date back to the 17th<\/sup> century. Called \u201cear trumpets<\/a>,\u201d their primary function was to funnel sounds into the ear canals. Doesn\u2019t get much more low-tech than that. <\/p>\n By the end of the 19th<\/sup> century, hearing aids were relying on electric currents to amplify sounds. Hearing aids using vacuum tubes made their debut in 1920, converting speech into electrical signals by using telephone transmitters which amplified sounds and sent them to a receiver. These were closer in concept to today\u2019s hearing aids, but were too heavy and bulky to be portable; uses had to place them on a table instead. <\/p>\n After World War II, transistors appeared, and hearing aids consumed less battery power and grew smaller. In the 1980s, high-speed micro-processors were used, and the following decade, digital technology began to show up. Today\u2019s hearing aids are tiny and powerful and offer options unimaginable even a decade or two ago. Technology continues to march forward; it\u2019s possible that the next generation of devices will be unrecognizable!<\/p>\n The biggest technical innovations<\/a> in hearing aids over the past decade include the following.<\/p>\n If you would like to learn more about the latest hearing aid technology or are considering an upgrade, contact your audiologist in Tucson<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n The majority of people with hearing loss in Tucson can benefit from wearing hearing aids\u2014yet many don\u2019t. Some worry over a perceived stigma or are doubtful that the devices will improve their hearing, but with the technological innovations hearing aids have undergone over the years, those fears are ungrounded. The Changing Look of Hearing Aids…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"38","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"520-648-3277 | With the technological innovations hearing aids have undergone over the years, most fears about wearing them are ungrounded.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hearing-aids-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7593,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions\/7593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arizonahearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Changing Look of Hearing Aids<\/h2>\n
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How old are the first hearing aids?<\/h3>\n
What are the biggest hearing aid innovations?<\/h2>\n
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Contact us to learn if you can benefit from a hearing aid upgrade.<\/h3>\n
Learn More About the Benefits of Hearing Aids<\/h3>\n
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