Ed -- take a look at www.soundid.com. Their technology gets at what you are talking about. For starters they are using Bluetooth with their own hearing enhancement technology to improve cellphone signals for people including hearing-impaired. Sound ID was started by Rodney Perkins who started a hearing aid company, ReSound Corp. which is now GM Resound, one of the 7 biggest hearing aid companies.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Ed -- take a look at www.soundid.com. Their technology gets at what you are talking about. For starters they are using Bluetooth with their own hearing enhancement technology to improve cellphone signals for people including hearing-impaired. Sound ID was started by Rodney Perkins who started a hearing aid company, ReSound Corp. which is now GM Resound, one of the 7 biggest hearing aid companies.