Dr Beck interviews Anthony T. Cacace, PhD, an audiologist and research professor who, along with colleagues Emile de Kleine, Avril Genene Holt and Pim van Dijk, has assembled a new 2016 textbook, Scientific Foundations of Audiology–Perspectives from Physics, Biology, Modeling and Medicine.
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Miracle-Ear has just launched its newest hearing aid technology, the GENIUS 2.0 Technology with Speech Isolation, which is designed to highlight the most prominent speaker from all other unwanted speech and background noises in a variety of situations.
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Researchers have found that the parts of the inner ear that process speech and music seem to work differently than other parts of the inner ear. Using technology designed for examining the eye, they measured the inner ear response to sound without having to open the surrounding bone structures.
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Marshall Chasin, AuD, discusses the Minimal Audible Field (MAF), or the softest sound that normal-hearing people can hear in the normal diffuse sound field at 1000 Hz, and explains why sometimes less is more.
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iHear® Medical has announced the launch of an online hearing solutions platform. The company is now taking orders for its invisible iHEARHD® hearing aid, and the iHearTest™, which recently received FDA approval as the first home hearing screener.
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Starkey’s Halo 2 Made for iPhone hearing aid has been named by Inc. magazine as one of the “Top 7 Most Brilliant Product Designs of 2016.” The Halo 2 won for innovative use of mobile and hearing technology.
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Sonic’s newest addition to the Cheer family, the Cheer20 miniRITE hearing aid, combines technology, convenience and value, creating opportunities for more users to experience natural sound, along with features not always expected in an entry-level model.
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Remote microphone technology is an effective method of maximizing the help hearing aids can provide in demanding scenarios. Users can reconnect to favorite activities even in background noise, multiple talker activities, and more. Here are tips on the technology.
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Unitron and hearing healthcare professionals embraced a vision for industry change at the recent Engage conference, which focused on empowering hearing care practitioners to create patient advocates to grow their practice.
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This study evaluates 11 low-end and high-end hearing aids and PSAPs, and shows that all high-end hearing aids were able to fit most audiometric configurations, and 2 high-end PSAPs and 1 app were able to fit up to a moderate loss configuration.
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New research into “ringing in the ears,” or tinnitus, points to an alarming level of early hearing damage in young people who are exposed to loud music, prompting a warning from leading researchers in the field.
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Sensaphonics, a hearing conservation company that designs custom-fitted earphones and electronics to achieve safe, high-resolution audio, held its first Gold Circle seminar of 2016 in Chicago on May 20-21.
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When exposure to noise or music occurs, the Temporary Hearing Loss Test app addresses the important issue of whether there has been a temporary threshold shift (TTS) or not, and if so, how much, providing invaluable long-term prevention information.
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By creating a Tinnitus Toolbox based on best-practice solutions, hearing care professionals can use tinnitus evaluation results to tailor management plans that best suit each patient with tinnitus. This is Part 2 of a 2-part series.
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Technology watch websites VentureBeat and Engadget report on Samsung’s preparations to launch Gear IconX, its wireless Bluetooth earbuds. Are these poised to shake up the hearables market?
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