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The magnet they put in the CI have absolutely, zero, zip effect on our brain. It's hardly strong enough to lift a paper clip. :) But for those who insist. :) This Is Your Brain on Magnets Ron Jaxon

Yes, Google voice will transcribe a voicemail to you. I'm assuming you're not familiar with it so here's how it works. They call you but you don't answer. So they'll get a voicemail to leave you a message. What they say in the voice mail will be sent to you as a text and you'll be able to read...

I've got a couple of apps on my iPhone that use audio to identify things. For example an app called Shazam can listen to music and tell you what song it hears playing, what artist sang it, the lyrics and all kinds of other information about the song. Another app called intonow works the same way...

I wanted to share this with you all. Not only because this is a great and interesting book. But also for the fact that I'm honored to be one of the many deaf magicians that's in this book. It contains the biographies of deaf magicians all the way back to the 19th century. There's more history in...

But you've got to think about it from the point of view of someone who has absolutely no experience with deafness or people who are deaf. I'm not saying I agree with this person, in fact I don't. But what was said simply means the person doesn't have any experience with someone who lives with...

I was out at a bar where I go to play pool one night. At one of the tables was a group of people that I knew. I didn't know them all that well. Just regulars at a place I'm a regular so I don't know them all that well. Just known them a long time. Anyway on this night there was a cake and...

Here's a book I'm particularly fond of. Because I'm in it. It's called "Silent Magic" and it's a book of biographies of Deaf magicians over the past 200 years. There are more of them then you might think. Here's a link to it at Amazon...

I really don't think a CI really has anything to do with ASL or no ASL. For some it's simply a matter of what's accessible to them. I found out I was HOH in about the fourth grade. A lip reading teacher was sent to my school and I took lessons in it one our a day (I loved it, got to leave...

There's one issue I have with the point of view that says, "Just learn ASL". That's only helpful if you talk to others who speak ASL. It's almost impossible to learn it on your own. Yea, you could learn a good number of signs but to actually speak it requires practice at both signing and...

For those of you who don't have a CI or are considering getting one. You should know that it's not something that's going to happen over night. When the CI is activated it won't be turned up all the way right off the bat. You'll go in for a serious of mappings to adjust the settings a little...

Sure I would. I'd worry about pinching my fingers and other parts of my body at times if some magnets move and slam together. But sitting in a room made of magnets wouldn't effect my body at all. Watch Penn and Tellers BS on the subject sometimes. Here's a youtube video clip of it. YouTube...

I was deaf for almost 20 years and got a Nucleus 5 last year. I'm listening to music and talking on the phone all the time now. I usually do it by hooking the personal listening cable to my iPhone and listen through iPod. As far as I know the Nucleus 5 is the most water resistant to date. But...

Since I started this discussion and read some of your replies to some of the things I said in my fallow up posts. I've done a lot of thinking. I was wrong on some of the things I said and especially how I said them. For that I apologize. But, I do feel that when deciding to or not to get a CI...

Actually, the thing with magnetic "Therapy" is just a myth. There are a lot of products that claim they do something, but the magnetic of them have absolutely no effect in what they are claiming. There are some devices that use magnets and do serve a purpose. But it's not the magnetism that...

I reread and I do see that I probably wasn't as clear as I should have been. I still use CC to. I can watch and hear some things better then others but I still have the CC turned on on my TV and it's helpful. Without it I only pick up so much so it helps fill in the blank. What I was trying...

For the record I have nothing against hearing aids. In fact I wore them myself from fourth grade up till my late teens when my hearing dropped beyond the aid of them. And today the HA's are better for some people then a CI. How I look at it is this. If an HA will give them the ability to hear as...

I can understand that. Especially everything in a theater being so over priced. But there's something magical about the big screen and the experience. And many movies are so much better on that big screen then on a TV or computer screen. A recent example would be Avatar. Or look back to star...

A couple of years ago I posted in this forum that I had an idea that might, would've I'm still pretty sure it still would solve the captioning in theaters problem. The problem I'm referring to is the main reason so many theaters don't have subtitles or CC in their theaters. And that's the matter...

Thats great. Please let us know how it goes. Just a little advice. Keep your expectations realistic. The first week or so you'll hear "Sounds" but they won't sound like what they are. you probably won't be able to tell the difference between the sound of a car horn and a dog bark. Or a tap and...

There are so many opinions on Cochlear implants. I think it's important to separate the facts from the non-experienced opinions. By that I mean you can browse the internet and research about Cochlear implants and most of what you'll read are written by people who have no personal experience with...