Start talking with you hand on your aid. Look around furtively. Now, you're the FBI. lol
I used to be tempted to make fun of BTDB's (this is an actual acronym in use): Blue Tooth Douche Bags. You know, those people who wear Bluetooth devices in their ears constantly and always look like they're talking to themselves as they're walking around.
Anyway, I was tempted to fiddle with my hearing aid in the presence of BTDB's in an elevator with me, at one workplace, while using phone phrases. Hello? Wait... I'm losing you... SPEAK UP!
Might be even more funny with a group of us almost like we are talking to each other even though we are all on the same elevator! Best to do this in the present of someone actually on a phone call.... He he he
Just curious, what is your prediction on the direction the hearing clinics are headed in within the next 20 years? Myself, I can see the clinics becoming a thing of the past due to the technology becoming more sophisticated all of the times. Maybe not in 20 years, but eventually.
I'm referring to the clinics where only hearing aids are sold, not cochlear implants.
Or better yet, a bunch of deaf people with hearing aids and implants fiddling with the controls and producing feedback while leaning toward each other, without speaking or signing. If someone looks at us funny, explain that we are from Binar. We are here to overhaul the Enterprise. Please direct us to engineering.
I know people involved with hearing clinics. They are still selling just hearing aids and FM systems. Are you aware that they are still using Windows XP for their softwares since that's what they require? Windows Vista, nah. Windows 7, nah. Windows 8? Probably nah.
Talk about staying in the dark ages.
Keeping up with the technology is pretty important if you ask me. Apparently these people don't appear to think so.
Digital aids are good for several years or longer. My last one lasted 13 years before it suddenly conked out. My second one is now 4 years old.
Precise, of course
But I am not taking this test, sorry... what I don't like about it is,
it requires my email and then it keep it - oh, no, I don't like that .
Fuzzy
I have a 'throw-away' email address at yahoo that I use for things like that.
I have a 'throw-away' email address at yahoo that I use for things like that.
Ditto, except I threw it away and don't remember what it is anymore.
I'm sure there's a tech-support story in which someone threw away his computer because he had to put something in the trash...
I had to scroll up to see what we were talking about!
That reminds me of the day I finally disposed of my first computer. I loved that hunk of metal. I did my first college level programming on it. Built my first Linux box with it. Sigh, good times! Oh man, now you got me all nostalgic!