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Listen to biophony, geophony, anthrophony: the 'music' of Planet Earth Geophony. Biophony. Anthrophony. Unfamiliar words. But they shouldn't be. We're surrounded by them morning, noon and night, say ecologist Bryan Pijanowski of Purdue University and colleagues. The evening "singing" of frogs. Burbling brooks, breaking waves and the whistling wind. Planes, trains and automobiles. Biophony is the music created by organisms like frogs and birds; geophony, the composition of...

SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- iHear®Medical announces the completion of its second round of financing totaling $1.8M. The new funding will enable the company to complete the development of its advanced hearing products for treating a multitude of hearing losses. "The new hearing aid technology and distribution strategy are designed to break existing barriers for millions of potential consumers with hearing loss," stated iHear Medical founder and medical device...

People who suffer a traumatic experience often don’t talk about it, and many forget it over time. But not talking about something doesn’t always mean you’ll forget it; if you try to force yourself not to think about white bears, soon you’ll be imagining polar bears doing the polka. A group of psychological scientists explore the relationship between silence and memories in a new paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological...

HAMPTON, Va., Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Can you hear me now? Yes, thanks to James West, a former Bell Laboratories Fellow at Lucent Technologies who developed the electret condenser microphone (ECM). West will speak at NASA's Langley Research Center here on Tuesday, Feb. 7. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) West, currently a research professor at Johns Hopkins University, will present, "Modern Microphones and New Directions in Sensors,"...

BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Hearing Loss Association of America® is pleased to announce its line-up of 2012 spring and fall Walks in 21 cities across the country. The Walk4Hearing experienced growth for the sixth straight year and surpassed its 2011 fundraising goal of $1.2 million. Hearing loss is a leading public health concern with 36 million adults reporting some degree of hearing loss, yet most people go untreated. The Walk4Hearing increases...

BEAVERTON, Ore., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Audio Precision, the recognized standard in audio test, today announced the availability of its new PDM I/O option for its APx500 series audio analyzers. PDM (pulse density modulation) is a one-bit, high clock rate data stream used with digital MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) microphones used extensively in smartphone design. The APx PDM option allows APx500 series audio analyzers to connect directly to any device with a PDM...

Accent modification offered along with other speech therapy services Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 25, 2012 Los Angeles Voice Therapy (LAVT), a full-service speech language pathology private practice, announced it’s grand opening today. LAVT will offer a variety of services including voice rehabilitation, accent modification, and dialect coaching for actors. “We are so excited to announce the grand opening of our practice,” said Tina Babajanians, Speech Language Pathologist and...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- It was in the iconic 1967 song "Cold Sweat" that the late great James Brown notably called out, "Give the drummer some! Give the drummer some!" acknowledging the drumbeat, steadily in the background, as an instrumental force centering our musical universe. Well James Brown would be proud as veteran video producer/director Gerald Forrest, with the creation of GospelChops.com, has proceeded to give the drummer some and more via...

CONCORD, Mass., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Wildlife Acoustics, Inc., the leading supplier of acoustic monitoring systems for endangered and threatened wildlife species around the world, announces the next generation terrestrial ultrasonic passive acoustic recorder, the Song Meter SM2BAT+. "With the SM2BAT+, for the first time bat biologists now have a solution for ultrasonic bat monitoring that supports both full spectrum and zero crossing natively in the same product," said...

DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ford reduces wind noise in all-new Ford Escape by using an elliptical acoustic mirror to measure noise This is the first use of this technology to test wind noise in a Ford sport utility vehicle The mirror is like a satellite dish with a microphone placed a short distance from the Escape, traversing it lengthwise to collect sound Acoustic mirrors were a precursor to radar, intended to detect airplanes When Ford engineers sought...