Category: Accessories

Accessories

Listen Everywhere Used at John Rennie High School

Listen Technologies announced that John Rennie High School, a secondary school in Quebec, Canada, has selected Listen EVERYWHERE for use in its theater to support assistive listening.

Accessories

Listen Technologies to Provide InfoComm 2022 with ListenTALK

Listen Technologies Corporation announced that it will provide ListenTALK, its 3-in-1 mobile communication system, to support all Integrated Experience Tours and Show Floor Tours at InfoComm 2022.

Accessories

Nuance Hearing Launches Voice Selector Converse

The Voice Selector Converse helps overcome challenging hearing situations for those who struggle with the ‘cocktail party problem,' offering “a tech solution to understand conversations in a crowded room, without the need for hearing aids,” according to the company's announcement.

Assistive Technologies

Knowles Partners with Lucid Hearing

Knowles and Lucid Hearing, a hearing aid company, have partnered to bring the hearing health industry the Westone Audio High Fidelity DWT, a hearing aid with a Receiver in Canal (RIC) that delivers “exceptional sound quality for music listening.”

Batteries & Power

EarTechnic Selects Energous Wireless Charging for Tie-X

Energous’ WattUp wireless charging technology is based on radio frequency (RF), which helps provide “a number of benefits for wireless charging, including the ability to fit into small form factor products and devices without flat surfaces.”

Components

Nupur Launches Earigator Wax Removal Device

The “self-contained irrigation unit heats water to body temperature to help avoid vertigo effects and gives the practitioner the ability to control pressure and flow within a safe limit.”

Earmolds

Researchers Improve Earplugs’ Efficiency

The results of the study show that the area of the ear canal called the "first elbow" is closely linked to noise attenuation by earplugs.

Headphones

Rutgers Engineers Turn ‘Dumb’ Headphones ‘Smart’

How do you turn “dumb” headphones into smart ones? Rutgers engineers have invented a cheap and easy way by transforming headphones into sensors that can be plugged into smartphones, identify their users, monitor their heart rates, and perform other services, according to an article published on the university's website.

Plugs & Tips

‘WSJ’ Reports Jury Sides with 3M in Second Earplugs Trial

A jury in the second trial of a class-action lawsuit brought by military members who alleged that 3M did not disclose design flaws in its dual-ended Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2 (CAEv2), ruled in favor of the company, according to an article in the “Wall Street Journal.”