Category: Products
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Oticon Powers Up Sumo DM Hearing Aids For Hardest-Of-Hearing Customers
Oticon’s latest high-end hearing aid, the new Sumo DM, is designed specifically for severely impaired users and takes on the technology problems at the high end of the market with gusto.
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Bluetooth Hearing-Aid Products Debut
We are starting to see the long-awaited arrival of multiple Bluetooth-enabled hearing-enhancement products.
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Neckloops For Telecoil-Equipped Hearing Aids Are Cool
When I got my first neckloop two years ago, I marveled at its simplicity and utility. It’s little more than a cord of insulated stereo-speaker wire that I loop around my neck and plug into a microphone or other source. But then, through the miracle of electro-magnetic induction, it transmits pure sound directly into my…
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Postmodern Man: Michael Chorost's Cochlear-Implant Book, Rebuilt, Is About A Whole Lot More Than Cochlear Implants
You can learn everything you ever wanted to know about cochlear implants, and more, from Michael Chorost’s new book, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human.
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California Dreaming About Hearing-Hair Replacement
Let’s talk hair-replacement therapy. No, I’m not talking about premature baldness, Rogaine or Hair Club for Men. I’m talking about the 15,000 hair-like cells we have in each cochlea at birth that are responsible for translating sound waves from the ear drum into electrical signals the brain can decode as speech, music, a baby crying…
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If A-Rod Can Carry A Purse, I Can Too!
A couple of months ago, I finally got tired the trade-off between stuffing every spare pocket with all my hearing gear (and eventually having to wear a sport coat and overcoat with yet more pockets, even in warm weather) vs. packing it all in my business briefcase that is too big to carry with me…
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Hearing Aids And Cellphones: One Step Forward, Half A Step Back
Making a cellphone easy to use with a hearing aid is devilishly hard. Both devices are packed with so many chips and other digital electronics that electromagnetic interference causing feedback, static and distortion is bound to occur in one or both devices.
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Bluetooth Bandwagon Builds Momentum, But Where Are The HOH Products?
Every week it seems we hear of another new product for hard-of-hearing (HOH) consumers utilizing the Bluetooth wireless communications standard. My only comment on all these efforts is, “Sounds great, guys, but when will we actually see (and hear) the products?”
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Infants With Cochlear Implants Get More Language Sooner
A recent research report published by a team at Indiana University provides more evidence that the younger a hearing-impaired child receives a cochlear implant, the quicker he or she is to acquire spoken language.
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Cochlear Implants and Music
When you get a cochlear implant, it restores much ability to discern sound, but comprehension is another matter — it takes time for the brain to “map” sounds to intelligible words, music, etc.