Category: Products
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AdRants: Do Hearing Aids Really Need 'Dolce and Gabanna Treatment'?
AdRants, a top web site covering the advertising industry, picked up our recent post on how Phonak is using some over-the-top advertising imagery in an attempt to make the new Phonak Audeo hearing aids more cool.
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Startup Bionica To Market New 'Personal Communication System'
It’s not every day a new hearing-aid company is launched from the ground up. A group of entrepreneurs in Providence, Rhode Island, yesterday announced they formed Bionica Corp. to develop and market a new “Personal Communication System.”
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Phonak Aims Its Colorful New Audeo Hearing Aids At Aging Hipsters
There’s a marketing bug going around the hearing-aid industry. First Oticon caught it with its Delta hearing aids, whose array of pop colors would have made Andy Warhol proud. Now Phonak has caught the bug with its Audeo hearing aids.
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Hatis Assistive Listening Devices Make Hearing Aids Phone- and iPod-Friendly
To listen to an iPod or communicate successfully on the phone, even on my most powerful amplified phone, I need to hear with both ears. I’ve found the best way to accomplish that trick is with a line of products from Hatis that plug into my iPod and my phones.
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Oticon Integrates Wireless Bluetooth Receiver In New Epoq Hearing Aids
Oticon’s latest new technology is whiz bang, integrating a Bluetooth receiver inside its new Epoq family of hearing aids.
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Check Out 'The Mobile Phone Challenge' At Healthy Hearing
Dr. Paul Dybala, who runs two excellent web sites for hard-of-hearing consumers and hearing health professionals — Healthy Hearing and Audiology Online — asked me to contribute an article to Healthy Hearing on my experiences shopping for mobile phones that would work with my powerful hearing aids.
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Ear Gear Delivers For Cochlear Implants And Mini Open-Fit Hearing Aids
I wrote about Ear Gear hearing aid retention and protection systems a while ago and noted that if I’d been using them when I was cleaning out my gutters last fall I never would have lost my hearing aid.
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Varibel Hearing-Aid Glasses Integrate Eight Directional Microphones
Hiding hearing aids in a pair of glasses is an idea almost as old as hearing aids themselves. But Varibel, a Dutch company, has truly put new wine in old bottles by integrating eight sophisticated directional microphones into the frame of new hearing-aid glasses that the company says effectively double the boost in hearing you…
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Oticon Introduces Kid-Friendly Amigo FM Assistive Listening Devices
Oticon has recently increased its historically strong commitment to the pediatric market with the Amigo family of wireless FM assistive listening devices.
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Vortis Cell Phone Antenna Reduces Hearing-Aid Interference
A start-up company based in Glasgow, Scotland, has developed an innovative antenna technology eliminating the electrical interference that can make cell phones impossible to use with hearing aids. Dual-antenna array technology built into the Vortis Technologies Ltd. antenna radiates electrical signals in a figure-eight pattern out and away from the user’s head and hearing aids.