Category: Products
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Siemens Gets Active With New Cielo And Nitro Hearing-Aid Families
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.
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Songbird Hearing Gets Re-Start Financing For Disposable Hearing Aids
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.
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$50,000 Widex Hearing Aid Is One Of The Nuttiest Promotions I've Seen
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).
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NBA Basketball Legend Kevin McHale Supports Cochlear Implants For Kids
Basketball great Kevin McHale founded the Help Me Hear Foundation to provide cochlear implants for children.
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Future Cochlear Implant Patients Might Preserve Some Residual Hearing
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new, less-invasive means of implanting electrodes into the cochlea that may ultimately do less damage to hearing nerves in the cochlea and preserve more residual hearing in the patient.
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'Boomer Babe' Says Phonak Audeo Hearing-Aid Ads Are Okay With Her
By blitzing consumer magazines popular with baby boomers (Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, etc.) with its edgy ads, the new Audeo open-fit behind-the-ear hearing aids have turned more heads of fashion-conscious boomers than anything I’ve seen.
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Advanced Bionics Is An Independent Cochlear Implant Maker Again
The acquisition by Boston Scientific, the world’s leading manufacturer of cardiac stents and other implant devices, of Advanced Bionics, one of the world’s three cochlear implant manufacturers, seemed a sure bet. But the marriage quickly soured and after several difficult years dissolved entirely last week.
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How To Find A Hearing-Aid-Compatible Mobile Phone
Phonescoop.com has a phone finder which lets you search for hearing-aid compatible phones, including their ‘M’ and ‘T’ ratings.
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Josh Swiller Can Tell You Exactly What It's Like To Be Hard-Of-Hearing
Josh Swiller, who started an excellent blog several years ago about what it’s like to get a cochlear implant, wrote a great article for the New York Times Sunday Magazine today that may be the best description I’ve read of what it’s like to be hard-of-hearing.
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Beltone Touts New Hearing Aid As Smallest And Lightest In Its Class
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.”