What was that?
01.19.07 - 04:58pm
Professor Fan-Gang Zeng, from the University of California, noticed a phenomenon happening among his students. The phenomenon wasn’t students getting superb grades or suddenly being able to jump buildings. The phenomenon was hearing loss. Hearing loss that normally wouldn’t be seen until his students were 50 or 60.
Professor Zeng works in boi-medical engineering and is a researcher specializing in hearing loss. He has seen cases of hearing loss in all of his classes for the past two years. The only thing that he’s seen change in the lifestyle of his students, for that two years, is the use of iPods or MP3 players.
“We can’t say for sure it’s from MP3 players, but I don’t know what else has changed,” said Zeng, “The climate and the food are the same.”
“Earbuds” such as the little white ones that have become synonymously famous with the iPod can be played much louder than earphones with previous technologies due to digital sound. Digital sound lets you turn it up, way up, without distortion. Also earbuds are directly in the ear canal allowing no sound to escape.
