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Though I couldn’t disagree more with some of her arguments, I’m glad that Erin Biba, at Wired Magazine, chose to touch upon (with her limited perspective) some of the issues with hearing aid technology and their limitations, perversely high cost, and evolving stigma. The article is part of an expose called “Why Things Suck: The 33 Things That Make us Crazy”. I gave a response on at the magazine. I encourage anyone to share their thoughts and its nice to see the media taking on this issue when it does.

Interestingly, Wired Magazine has other articles that praise hearing device technology instead of trashing it. Like this one on hearing aids and their ability to work with MP3 players and phones. Or check out this report touching on how hearing aids reduce the effort that the brain expends understanding speech in noise.