IN an age when the police in some cities have set up "free speech zones" for dissenters, often well beyond their targets' hearing range, location is central to interpreting the First Amendment's guarantee of the people's right "peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances".
This may involve a range of different interventions that target hearing through appropriate hearing aid fitting, enhance the role of other sensory modalities that can be exploited in communication, and capitalize on cognitive abilities by seeking to maintain and extend them.
Japan will be the first overseas market targeted, we hear.
Language is never the be all and end all, but not trivializing harassment that happens on the internet as "trolling" (or, say, "cyberbullying") helps people who are targeted feel heard and believed.
Language is never the be all and end all, but not trivializing criminal harassment that happens on the internet as "trolling" (or, say, "cyberbullying") helps people that are targeted feel heard and believed.
Holosonics of Watertown, Massachusetts, manufactures a system called the Audio Spotlight that converts ultrasound to audible sound via a narrow targeted beam heard only by its recipient, who doesn't need to wear a receiver.
Thank you Target for hearing our voices and taking our concerns very seriously!
Included in this estimate are two million incidents of "temporary hearing loss," and 2,000 are targeted for permanent hearing loss.
Also, be sure you can use the sound well--nothing is worse than you losing your cover when your target hears a duck call that sounds like an old-fashioned car horn.
Had one target not heard his home computer inexplicably come alive late one night last fall, there is no telling how long Mr. Jiang might have gone on with his scheme -- and even then, he was not finished trying.
