Author: Stefani Kim

Oticon More Receives CES 2021 Innovation Award

Oticon announced that the Consumer Electronics Association has named Oticon More an honoree in the CES 2021 Innovation Awards. The world’s “first hearing aid with an on-board Deep Neural Network (DNN)” has received honors in both the Health & Wellness and Wearable Technologies categories.

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Diet and its Role in Dentition, Linguistics

Anthropologist Caleb Everett and former student Sihan Chen used a novel data analysis of thousands of languages, in addition to studying a unique subset of celebrities, to reveal how a soft food diet—contrasted with the diet of hunter-gatherers—is restructuring dentition and changing how people speak.

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Primary Progressive Aphasia Memory Loss Measured

Primary progressive aphasia is a rare neurodegenerative condition characterized by prominent language problems that worsen over time. About 40% of people with the condition have underlying Alzheimer’s disease. But a new study has found that people with the condition may not develop the memory problems associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

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Learning and Connecting: Teenagers with Hearing Impairment during COVID-19 Restrictions

The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia saw physical distancing measures take effect to limit the spread of the virus. Many schools took to remote delivery of education for students, including delivering education via video, emails, and independent reading materials. We continue to work with children in the LOCHI study to explore the experiences of young people with hearing impairment during the time of distance learning.

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Neosensory Partners with Oaktree Products

Neosensory, a company that builds devices for sensory augmentation, and Oaktree Products, a provider of clinical supplies to the hearing care industry, have partnered to allow hearing care professionals to purchase the Neosensory Buzz for their patients directly through Oaktree Products.

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Starkey CTO Achin Bhowmik Named IEEE Fellow

Bhowmik is responsible for Starkey’s technology strategy, global research, product development, and engineering departments. Since joining Starkey in 2017, he has led the organization’s efforts to transform hearing aids into multifunctional health devices with advanced sensors and artificial intelligence technologies.

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