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JoeSoft Rolls Sound-Enhancing App for Macs. Demo Available

JoeSoft says that Hear, a sound enhancement program (demo available) for your Mac, "greatly" enhances your sound experience, whether it's music, movies or video games that you usually run on your computer. In fact, Greg Brewer, CEO of Prosoft, says "your games will now blow you away." Does that include SuperTux?...

9 April 2008
06:40 GMT

Humans Have Keener Hearing than Most Mammals

Many terrestrial and aquatic species can hear lower and higher frequencies than those detected by humans (infrasound, respectively ultrasounds). Frequency is crucial in defining a sound. Now, an Israeli team sustained by UCLA researchers has showed for the first time, in a research published in the journal "Nature," ...

2 April 2008
03:32 GMT

Beaked Whales Hear Through Their Throats!

Beaked whales get their name from the shape of their snouts and their large size, but these cetaceans are close-related to dolphins. This family of toothed cetaceans is amongst the least known mammalian families. They measure between 3,4 to 12 m (11 to 40 ft) length and weigh 1 to 15 tones. They make deep dives and f...

11 February 2008
03:28 GMT

Snakes Hear in Stereo Using Their Jaws!

The classical number of cobra dancing is a spoof. Even if the snakes would be tamed so that they would dance to the sound of the music, they could not do it. They just follow the tamer's continuous movements of the arms and knees, while he's playing a wind instrument, as snakes don't even hear the musi...

26 January 2008
05:52 GMT

Viagra Can Make You Deaf!

You may pump Viagra into your body, for the sake of having wild sex, but the Kenny G track will be heard just by the neighbors. The first report of Viagra-hear loss was reported by two researchers at an Air Force hospital in Bangalore, India, when a 44-year-old man experienced a sudden hear loss following 15 days of ...

25 October 2007
14:06 GMT

Mobile Phones Harm Hearing

This is the second technological addiction of today's people, after the Internet. But experts warn that using a mobile phone for over an hour daily could induce hearing damage. Research reveals that persons who regularly employ their mobile for over an hour a day experience hearing impairment, and it is especial...

22 September 2007
03:59 GMT

Cicada Calls Can Permanently Damage Hearing

The character of La Fontaine's fable has turned into a grotesque American nightmare. One that comes at each 17 years, and which could be gone by the beginning of July. In the Illinois area, chorus of cicadas throb in the oak trees, brain-piercingly loud. "It's dreadful. (...) it's the noise. By midday,...

11 June 2007
07:12 GMT


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