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. Read more

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 get from directional microphones in normal hearing aids. Read more

Sonic Innovations Jumps Into Open-Fit Fray With Ion Hearing Aid Family

Sonic Innovations has jumped into the booming market for comfortable “open-fit” mini behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids with its new Ion Open Ear family, which it touts as the smallest and most powerful in its class. Read more

Starkey ‘nFusion’ Hearing Aids Automatically Adjust To Acoustic Environment

With its nFusion hearing-aid architecture featured in a new flagship Destiny hearing-aid family, Starkey Laboratories has taken a giant step forward in the digital world. Read more

Oticon Introduces High-Function, High-Fashion Behind-The-Ear Hearing-Aids

Last year the hottest innovation driving the fastest-growing segment of the hearing-aid market was the “thin-tube, open-fit” design for behind-the ear (BTE) aids. This year, will the hottest new products be RITE? Oticon will show its new Delta “Receiver-in-the-Ear” hearing aids featuring the RITE architecture at the American Academy of Audiology annual conference in Minneapolis this week. Read more

Widex Super-Power BTE Hearing Aids Do The Trick For Me

After losing one of my old Widex behind-the-ear hearing aids, I finally got a new pair of super-powerful BTEs. After thorough research, I came right back where I’d started from, at Widex. I got the Widex Senso Diva SD-19 model, the most powerful hearing aid the company sells and a step up from my previous Senso Diva SD-9’s. Read more

Oticon Powers Up Sumo DM Hearing Aids For Hardest-Of-Hearing Customers

Designing hearing aids for people with severe-to-profound hearing loss is one of the biggest challenges confronting hearing-aid manufacturers. Read more

Did Songbird Croak? Will It Rise From The Ashes?

Developing the first disposable hearing aid was one of my many great ideas that somebody else had first. Read more

William Austin, Hearing-Aid Promoter Extraordinaire

The only thing William Austin seems to work at harder than promoting himself is promoting the benefits of hearing aids. But in fact, the two go hand in hand. Over the past 40 years, the founder of Starkey Laboratories, one of the world’s seven dominant hearing aid manufacturers, has waged what at times has seemed a one-man war against the stigma of wearing hearing aids. Read more

How Many of Us Are There?

The hearing-impaired population is huge and growing. But a surprisingly small percentage of people who need hearing aids choose to use them. Read more

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