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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According to research from the University at Buffalo, humans and animals use similar cues to make sense of their acoustic worlds. The study, published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, fills an important gap in the literature on how animals group sounds into auditory objects.
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Vibes and Hear the World Foundation have partnered to enable access to hearing care for children in need. Vibes will contribute part of its revenues to Hear the World projects, while also providing hi-fi earplugs to concert goers.
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MED-EL is launching its “Inside Story” interview series to provide consumers with an inside look at the latest cochlear implant (CI) research news. The series, premiering at CI2016 in Toronto, May 11-14, joins EXPLORE Magazine as part of MED-EL’s outreach.
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Meditation has been shown to cause physiological and neurological changes, enhancing a range of cognitive processes and self-regulation abilities, including temporal resolution ability, speech perception in noise, cognition, and auditory processing.
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Because the literature shows the benefits of DNR include more rapid word learning rates, less listening effort, better recall of words, improved SNR at the hearing aid output, and more, audiologists Beck and Behrens suggest including activation of the DNR circuit as the “go-to” setting for adults and children.
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