A Hearing Aid That Uses Bones to Conduct Sound
From: Popular Science - 06/2010 - page 54
By: Elizabeth Svoboda

One day in 2006, stuck in bumper-to-bumper Bay Area traffic, Amir Abolfathi
had a eureka moment. Formerly vice president of R&D for Invisalign, a company
known for transparent dental braces, he had recently been chatting with a
friend who was working on hearing aids. Abolfathi knew that bone was a good
sound conductor. What if he could somehow make a removable oral hearing
aid—one that could channel sound from wearers’ teeth to their ear through the
bones in their head? That moment of freeway inspiration gave rise to the
SoundBite, a device designed for sufferers of single-sided deafness, which
strikes about 50,000 people every year in the US. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2010-05/invention-awards-hearing-aid-conducts-sound-through-your-bones

Links:
Sonitus
http://www.sonitusmedical.com/

SoundBite
http://www.sonitusmedical.com/product/

SoundBite Technology
http://www.sonitusmedical.com/product/technology.cfm

Amir Abolfathi
http://www.sonitusmedical.com/sonitus/board.cfm

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A Hearing Aid That Uses Bones to Conduct Sound
From: Popular Science - June 2010 - page 54
By: Elizabeth Svoboda

A device that restores hearing by transmitting sound through the teeth and
bones 

Made of acrylic, SoundBite snaps onto a user’s molars. A tiny microphone worn
in the deaf ear wirelessly beams incoming sound to an electronic receiver in
the molar insert, which transmits sound waves from the teeth through the
bones in the jaw to the cochlea, the part of the ear that processes sound. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2010-05/invention-awards-hearing-aid-conducts-sound-through-your-bones

Links: SoundBite
http://www.sonitusmedical.com/product/technology.cfm

SoundBite, a Cochlear Hearing Aid Without The Implant
http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2009/10/soundbite_a_cochlear_hearing_aid_without_the_implant.html

SoundBite Hearing System
http://www.wsoctv.com/health/24285680/detail.html

Amir Abolfathi
http://www.lead411.com/Amir_Abolfathi_1179820.html