Dutch team develops 'hearing-glasses' From: EE Times - 04/11/2006 By: Peter Clarke A Dutch company has launched a hearing aid in the form of a pair of glasses. The "hearing-glasses", like the company, are called Varibel. To capture and relay sound to the ears microphones, signal processing and miniature speakers are contained in the arms of the frames. Multiple microphones sited in the arms of the Varibel hearing-glasses provide tunable directionality so that it has a preferred direction of sensitivity, tuned to be forward facing. In this way the hearing aid increases the sound from a conversation ahead of the user but reduces background noises. In each arm of the frame there is a row of four interconnected microphones. Read the entire article at: http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/technology/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185300148&pgno=1 Links: New Dutch invention: Varibel, glasses that hear http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/duot-ndi040706.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=41243 http://www.physorg.com/news63632657.html http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2006/04/varibel_the_gla.html http://pda.physorg.com/lofi-news-people-hearing-varibel_63632657.html http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2006/04/varibel_the_gla.html http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/report-57708.html Varibel Hearing-Aid Glasses Integrate Eight Directional Microphones http://hearingmojo.com/blog-mt/blog-mt/2006/04/varibel_hearingaid_glasses_dou.html Glasses that hear well http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=210 http://www.vetrend.com/?p=42 http://www.primidi.com/2006/04/09.html New Glasses Double as Hearing Aids http://www.livescience.com/technology/060407_veribel.html Varibel website in Dutch: http://www.varibel.nl/site/home/