Cochlear Implants

Today's Bookmarks guest is basically the godfather of cochlear implants in New Zealand - he performed the first surgery here in 1986. Dr Bill Baber has just retired after almost 50 years as an ear… Audio

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeons say they're frustrated and dismayed over a lack of government funding for cochlear implants for adults - saying 200 people a year are eligible but only 40 will receive the… Audio

Andrew McRae talks to Ngaire Mathews, who is 75, about how she became a past-master at lip-reading and managed to get through her schooling without a hearing aid. She got her first hearing-aid at the… Audio

Apple buys a New Zealand company that's developed an efficient way to move power around without wires, Amazon works on a way to deliver when you're not home and Facebook experiments with the display… Audio

Veronika Meduna visits Cochlear, a medical device company that produces bionic ears, to find out how cochlear implants could help some of the 700,000 New Zealanders who live with a hearing disability.