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Apple Computer Inc. released software that impediments parents set the top body on iPod music players to harbor their children's hearing.

Apple is releasing the software brace months after U.S. Congressman ed Markey (D-Mass.) asked the National Institutes of Health to investigate hearing question s associated with the music players. mostly can produce sounds at as many as 120 decibels, as noisy as an ambulance siren, and continue lengthen in timeed exposure to 90 decibels might cause a certain quantity of hearing loss, according to the Mayo Clinic's Web site.

The software is available now as a liberated download, Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said Wednesday. The iPod is the world's best- selling personal music player.

Pete Townshend, 60 guitarist for the protection band Who, warned visitors to his Web site in January that years of headphone use had damaged his hearing.

In a overlook of adults and high-school learners earlier this month, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association build that less than one-fourth use earphones aimed at reducing contortion and about two-fifths listen to iPod players upon a loud setting.

Apple sold 32 million of the devices in the past four quarters and had 69 percent of the market for personal music players as of November, according to NPD assign places to Inc. in Port Washington, strange York.

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