All items tagged with hearing aids (129)
ZVOX Announces VoiceBud VB20 Full-Featured Over-the-Counter Voice-Enhancing Hearing Device
October 12, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

ZVOX Announces VoiceBud VB20 Full-Featured Over-the-Counter Voice-Enhancing Hearing Device

ZVOX Audio announced the availability of its VoiceBud V20, the company's first-ever personal audio device. As the company believes the category will be booming in the next 18 months as more companies enter the over-the-counter (OTC) personal sound amplification product business, ZVOX designed a very affordable ($299) device equipped with dual-microphone NoiseBlocker technology and smartphone app control using high-performance American-made electronics components.
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FDA Authorizes Bose Hearing Aid Device to Enter the Market as First Self-Fitting Hearing Aid Controlled by the User
October 8, 2018 by Joao Martins

FDA Authorizes Bose Hearing Aid Device to Enter the Market as First Self-Fitting Hearing Aid Controlled by the User

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed marketing of a new device, the Bose Hearing Aid, intended to amplify sounds for individuals 18 years or older with perceived mild to moderate hearing impairment (hearing loss). This is the first hearing aid authorized for marketing by the FDA that enables users to fit, program and control the hearing aid on their own, without assistance from a health care provider.
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Starkey Announces New Livio AI Hearing Aid Platform with Integrated Sensors and Artificial Intelligence
August 30, 2018 by Audio Engineering_Society

Starkey Announces New Livio AI Hearing Aid Platform with Integrated Sensors and Artificial Intelligence

The unveiling of the new Starkey Livio AI platform was a major event for Starkey Hearing Technologies, with the US-based company multiple times mentioning the market disruption caused by the iPhone on the communications market, and declaring its ambition to do the same with smart hearing. Starkey intends to reivent "both the hearing experience and the hearing aid,” markets with Livio AI, “the world’s first Healthable hearing aid to utilize integrated sensors and artificial intelligence and the first device to track physical activity and cognitive health as measured by hearing aid use in social situations.
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GN Hearing Announces the World’s Most Advanced Rechargeable Hearing Aid Solution
August 14, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

GN Hearing Announces the World’s Most Advanced Rechargeable Hearing Aid Solution

Danish group GN Hearing unveiled ReSound LiNX Quattro, characterized as a “Premium-Plus hearing aid, designed for people who want the very best that technology has to offer and desire a brilliant sound experience with great speech intelligibility even in noisy situations.” The new ReSound LiNX Quattro hearing aid is based on a completely new platform and is the smallest and longest lasting 2.4 GHz integrated Li-ion rechargeable hearing aid on the market.
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Man Machine Interfaces: An Interview with Nikolaj Hviid, Bragi Founder and CEO
March 8, 2018 by Joao Martins

Man Machine Interfaces: An Interview with Nikolaj Hviid, Bragi Founder and CEO

Munich-based Bragi is known for making truly wireless earphones, which are in fact the first truly smart hearables. Its first product, The Dash, won the CES 2015 Innovation Award Best of Innovation in the Headphones product category. When the idea of truly wireless stereo earbuds was still an idea, Bragi was working hard to enter the space, but their vision was going much further: truly wearables. As Nikolaj Hviid, Founder and CEO, Bragi GmbH puts it, "The purpose of wearables is to increase the data rate from the human to the machine."
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Sonova Expands SWORD 2.4GHz Wireless Chip to Advanced Bionics Cochlear Implant Sound Processors
December 29, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Sonova Expands SWORD 2.4GHz Wireless Chip to Advanced Bionics Cochlear Implant Sound Processors

Following Phonak's implementation in their Audéo B-Direct range of hearing aids, allowing direct connections to any Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, and the first product to make use of Sonova’s revolutionary SWORD (Sonova Wireless One Radio Digital) chip, now also Advanced Bionics, specialized in cochlear implants, announced that they will incorporate Sonova’s SWORD technology in their solutions. Current users of the Naída CI Q90 sound processor, and future recipients, will be able to connect to any Bluetooth-enabled cell phone.
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Phonak Releases Bluetooth Hearing Aid That Connects Directly to Any Cell Phone and TV
August 24, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Phonak Releases Bluetooth Hearing Aid That Connects Directly to Any Cell Phone and TV

Phonak Audéo B-Direct is the world's first Bluetooth hearing aid that directly connects to any to any Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. The new hearing aid is the first product to make use of Sonova’s revolutionary SWORD chip and wireless radio technology. Truly hands-free, the new Phonak Audéo B-Direct allows hearing aid wearers to have phone conversations or stream TV through their hearing aids and delivers excellent sound quality thanks to the proven Belong platform and AutoSense OS.
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Cochlear Introduces The World's First Made for iPhone Cochlear Implant Sound Processor
July 26, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Cochlear Introduces The World's First Made for iPhone Cochlear Implant Sound Processor

Cochlear Limited announced its new Nucleus 7 Sound Processor, the world's first Made for iPhone cochlear implant sound processor. According to the implantable hearing solutions specialist, the new solution allow users to stream sound from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch directly to their sound processor, offering greater accessibility, connectivity and wireless control, for those with hearing loss. Available in US and Canada.
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NXP and Widex Team for Low Power Wireless Audio Streaming Hearing Aids
July 12, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

NXP and Widex Team for Low Power Wireless Audio Streaming Hearing Aids

NXP Semiconductors and hearing aid specialist Widex announced that they have collaborated to develop, test and integrate NXP’s NxH2003 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) audio streaming SoC into the new Widex Beyond hearing aids. The two companies worked closely together throughout the product development cycle, to deliver hearing aid devices that can stream wireless audio from an Apple iOS device, consuming only 2.8 mA current at 1.2 Volts, which is currently the best in the industry. This allows end users to enjoy music directly from their personal devices for prolonged periods of time.
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Oticon to Showcase Opn Internet Connected Hearing Aid at CES 2017
December 21, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Oticon to Showcase Opn Internet Connected Hearing Aid at CES 2017

Oticon will showcase Oticon Opn at 2017 CES. Oticon Opn is the world’s first hearing aid to connect to the Internet via the IFTTT network and was honored with 2017 CES Innovations Awards in two categories – Tech for a Better World and Wearable Technologies. The small, discreet hearing device can be programmed to talk directly with doorbells, smoke detectors & other smart devices via the Oticon ON App, and overcomes noisy environment challenges.
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