The Hearing Video

This video also demonstrates the proper use and maintenance of hearing protection and how to chose the right protection for you

Hearing loss demonstration

If you are a regular visitor of this blog, odds are you're a hearing loss sufferer. You can use this demonstration to make others understand what could happen to them if they don't protect their ears, this demonstration might help. Or if you are simply curious about what is it like to lose your hearing, this demonstration can help you too.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/noise/demonstration.htm
or you can directly try it here :
Noise Induced hearing loss demonstration

Tool to estimate the performance of hearing protection

The United Kingdom's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has a noise exposure tool to  help you work out your daily noise exposure, weekly noise exposures, and estimate the performance of hearing protection.


http://www.hse.gov.uk/noise/calculator.htm

Interactive tool to virtually visit places and determine noise levels

A sound tour of the city with the New York Times

Great interactive tool to get an idea of average noise levels in different locations and the potential danger to one's ears.



Just in case you were curious about how the journalists obtained their noise measurements:

how-the-noise-was-measured

U.S. Noise Standards below those of other industrialized nations

By CARA BUCKLEY NYTimes
Noise levels recorded at nearly a dozen restaurants, gyms and bars in New York City reached heights that, if sustained over as little as two hours, would violate standards set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to protect workers’ hearing. But even if the regulations were heeded, many audiologists say, they would not protect hearing enough: federal noise protection standards lag behind much of the industrialized world’s.


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Coldplay Star Chris Martin Talks About Living with Tinnitus

Article by Rosie Taylor, Daily Mail

Suffering from tinnitus for a decade, Martin says, his condition improved once he started protecting his ears. Martin believes it's those years as a teenager listening to loud music that are to blame for his current hearing problems. He has some words of advice.

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Arizona kid hopes for hearing loss cure (Video)

http://news.yahoo.com/video/phoenixktvk3tv-15751070/cutting-edge-technology-could-lead-to-cure-for-hearing-loss-29111401.html

GREAT Infographic : How Do You Lose Your Hearing ?

This infographic explains the whole process very simply. Don't miss it. Click on this link, then twice on the image to enlarge it

Singer Sting and Chris Botti in new hearing loss PSA

Article from the HuffPo with advice on how to protect your ears.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/hearing-loss-in-middle-age_n_1364291.html

Hearing Loops : A fresh look at an old technology

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-hearing-loops-can-help/2012/04/09/gIQAvhEb6S_story.html