Category: Hearing Aids

Are you tired of seeing your father’s hearing aids sitting unused in the drawer? Do you want to send him a message he won’t forget? Visit one of the funniest web sites I’ve seen recently.

Shortly after my 80-year-old mother-in-law got a CIC (completely-in-the-canal) hearing aid, we got a panicked phone call one evening. “I just ate my hearing aid,” she screamed into the phone.

Siemens has recently introduced an open-fit, behind-the-ear hearing aid for “active” users. The Cielo 2 Active family has a nanotech-based coating that is water resistant as well as a special ear tip that guards against wax and moisture.

Songbird Hearing, the disposable hearing-aid company which mysteriously suspended operations several years ago, has recently received venture capital financing to re-start its operations. NewSpring Capital and The Provco Group of Pennsylvania have put $4 million in new financing into the New Jersey company, according to the VentureWire newsletter.

I stumbled across a news release purporting to be from the Widex people in the U.K. promoting a gold- and diamond-encrusted hearing aid with remote controller priced at 25,000 UK pounds ($50,144 U.S. dollars).

Beltone has introduced the Beltone Marq, an open-fit receiver-in-the-ear hearing aid that the company describes as the “smallest and lightest hearing instrument of its kind.”