Audio tech uses own hearing loss
Posted by CENTURY HEARING
Alex Selig was in preschool in Mill Valley when his teacher put him in tears reading him the riot act. She thought he was purposely misconstruing the message in a game of telephone, in which children in the class were instructed to pass a message one to the other with whispers in the ear.
As it turned out, Selig had major hearing loss, possibly as a result of infections when he was younger.
Over the coming years, Selig, who wears hearing aids in both ears, spent a lot of time with audiologists, and he developed a fascination with audio physics and technology.
That subsequently led him to start SoundFocus, a San Francisco tech startup that has built both a mobile app and a smartphone speaker case called "Amp" that it says dramatically improves what people hear, adjusted to individual users' hearing capabilities and tastes and also the surrounding environment.
Read More here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/10/audio-tech-whiz-uses-own-hearing-loss-to-better.html
As it turned out, Selig had major hearing loss, possibly as a result of infections when he was younger.
Over the coming years, Selig, who wears hearing aids in both ears, spent a lot of time with audiologists, and he developed a fascination with audio physics and technology.
That subsequently led him to start SoundFocus, a San Francisco tech startup that has built both a mobile app and a smartphone speaker case called "Amp" that it says dramatically improves what people hear, adjusted to individual users' hearing capabilities and tastes and also the surrounding environment.
Read More here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/10/audio-tech-whiz-uses-own-hearing-loss-to-better.html
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