On-ear headphones — small, lightweight models that sit on your earlobes rather than enveloping them — have come a long way from the flimsy, foam-padded headsets that came with your old Sony Walkman.

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Dr. Randall Bly uses a uses a phone app and a paper funnel to focus the sound, to check his daughter for an ear infection. AP WASHINGTON — Researchers have created a way for a smartphone to “hear” a ...

Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...

There are many types of hearing loss, and the type depends on the part of the ear that is damaged. Conductive hearing loss. This happens when something prevents sound from entering through the outer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oladance open ear headphones in bright orange on a wooden surface One of my biggest tech fails was killing a pair of wired ...

Tympanometry refers to a test that helps in the evaluation of the proper functioning of the middle ear. The middle ear is positioned behind the eardrum, also known as the tympanic membrane.‌ The test ...