Hearing Technologies

By Stephen O. Frazier, Hearing Loss Support Specialist I have enormous respect and gratitude for the many fine, conscientious, caring hearing care professionals I’ve met over the years but there are some who, it appears to me, are either not up to date on an old but still invaluable technology – telecoils – or for some other unfathomable reason do

Boston-based biotech firm, Decibel Therapeutics, announced a collaboration with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to boost research efforts to “discover and develop new potential therapeutics to protect, repair, and restore hearing”. As part of the effort, Regeneron will get an equity stake in Decibel and receive royalty payments if the company’s treatments get approved.   Decibel Theraputics, which was founded in 2015 with

by Stéphane Davoine, editor in chief of Audiology Infos Brazil   Vice-president of global medical affairs at GN ReSound and a former president of the American Academy of Audiology, David Fabry gave several lectures at the XIV Encontro International sobre próteses auditivas, last June in São Paulo, Brazil. He also answered The questions of Audiology Infos Brazil about some hot

While there continues to be a growing number of companies developing drugs to treat inner ear disorders, the inner ear remains a particularly challenging organ for targeted drug delivery. Now, however, a novel device to deliver drugs to the inner ear will undergo preclinical testing in an industry consortium. With funding from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication

Sivantos has announced the release of its Signia Nx hearing aid instrument family, which incorporates the company’s new Own Voice Processing (OVPTM) system. According to the company, the new Signia Nx technology uses a high speed classifier system that “ensures soundscape and own voice processing work in parallel to replicate natural sound perception”. Powered by Signia’s Ultra HD e2e binaural

After an extremely successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016, raising nearly $2 million dollars, Nura headphones became available for purchase in the spring of 2017. The concept of nuraphones was to create a high-fidelity, highly-customized listening experience. However, unlike other wired or wireless headphones, nuraphones actually measure the wearer’s otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) to offer an individualized listening experience.     The

By Rainer Hüls, Audio Infos Germany   The 62nd EUHA congress will start this Wednesday, October 18th, in Nuremberg. According to EUHA president Martin Blecker the main issues of this year’s congress are nothing less than the future of hearing aid acoustics!   What is the main task of the EUHA? Who are its members? How is it financed?  

As part of the announcement last week of the next generation Pixel smartphones, Google unveiled its all-new wireless earbuds: Pixel Buds. Like Apple, and other smartphone makers, Google has moved to do away with the traditional headphone jack and is now looking to cash in on the wireless headphone market. Priced at $159 for a set–the same as Apple AirPods–Google

Update May 17, 2018: MED-EL USA announced today that the FDA has given approval for the RONDO 2 Audio Processor and wireless charging pad. According to the company, product availability is estimated for Fall 2018.   Hearing implant maker, MED-EL, announced the launch of an all-new cochlear implant audio processor at the 61st Austrian National Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Massachusetts-based audio giant, Bose, announced late last week that it was officially joining the wireless earbud market. The company unveiled the new SoundSport Free wireless hearable device, which is aimed to compete directly with Apple, Bragi and others. The new SoundSport Free devices are said to last an impressive 5 hours per charge, placing it among the top in its