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Hearing Aid Sales Rise 5% in 2013; Industry Closes in on 3M Unit Mark
Staff Standpoint | February 2014 Hearing Review By Karl Strom, Editor-in-Chief Hearing aid unit sales increased by 4.8% in 2013, and behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids with external receivers (ie,...
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A History of e2e Wireless Technology
Tech Topics: Wireless Hearing Aids | February 2014 Hearing Review By Rebecca Herbig, AuD, Roland Barthel, and Eric Branda, AuD Ten years ago, in 2004, Siemens introduced e2e wireless—the first wireless...
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Improving Hearing and Hearing Aid Retention for Infants and Young Children: A...
Pediatrics | February 2014 Hearing Review By Karen L. Anderson, PhD, and Jane R. Madell, PhD By providing information about hearing aid retention strategies throughout early childhood, collecting...
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Satisfying the Demanding Lifestyles of Today’s Hearing Aid Wearers
Tech Topics: Hearing Aids | February 2014 HR By Brad Stephenson, AuD, and Donald Hayes, PhD While there persists a belief that as people near their retirement years, their lifestyle becomes less active...
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Starkey Hearing Technologies Introduces Halo MFi
Starkey Hearing Technologies, Minneapolis, Minn, has introduced Halo™, a Made for iPhone® (MFi) hearing aid engineered to be compatible with iPhone, iPad®, and iPod® touch. The Halo hearing aid is...
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A Disappearing Receiver Tube and Wire Cover Treatment
Tech Topic | April 2014 Hearing Review By Robert Traynor, EdD, MBA A new treatment for BTE and RIC/RITE receiver tubing and wire covers dyes the hearing aid plumbing to provide an even more invisible,...
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US Hearing Aid Sales Flat in First Quarter of 2014
US hearing aid unit sales in the first quarter of 2014 increased by less than a percentage point (0.95%) for the total market, and by only one-tenth of a percent (0.12%) for the commercial (non-VA)...
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The RIC as a Disruptive Technology
Staff Standpoint | Hearing Review June 2014 By Karl Strom, Editor-in-Chief Receiver-in-the-canal/ear (RIC/RITE) hearing aids continue to trend upward in usage and now constitute well over half (56.7%)...
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Hearing Aid Sales Up 2.9% in First Half of 2014
According to statistics compiled by the Hearing Industries Assn (HIA), Washington, DC, second-quarter US net unit hearing aids sales increased by 3.3% for the commercial market and 10.2% for the...
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Better Messages on Better Hearing: Shaping Images and Attitudes for the...
Final Word | Hearing Review August 2014 By Dennis Van Vliet, AuD I recently listened to a lecture by Curtis J. Alcock. Mr Alcock has a background in design and marketing, and transitioned to hearing...
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Localization 101: Hearing Aid Factors in Localization
Tech Topic | Hearing Review September 2014 By Francis Kuk, PhD, and Petri Korhonen, MS An introduction to localization, factors that influence localization when wearing hearing aids, and what steps can...
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Oticon’s BrainHearing Technology Designed to Help Brain Make Sense of Sound
Oticon’s “brain first” technology is designed to help provide better hearing with less effort by giving the brain the clearest, purest, sound signals to decode. Oticon Inc, Somerset, NJ, has announced...
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Oticon’s 2014 Human Link Conferences Explore the Brain, Cognition, and...
Left to right: Jim Kothe, MS, Oticon VP of Sales; Don Schum, PhD, VP of Audiology & Professional Relations; Nancy Palmere, Senior Marketing Manager; Marija Baranauskas, AuD, Director of Education...
View ArticleSiemens: New Binax System Outperforms Normal Hearing in Challenging Environments
At this week’s EUHA Congress held in Hannover, Germany, Siemens Hearing Instruments introduced its new binax hearing aid platform that reportedly provides hearing aid wearers with better speech...
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Phonak Launches Phonak Audéo V RIC Hearing Aid Line Based on New Venture...
The Phonak Audéo V family. Phonak has launched a new processing platform that reportedly features twice the processing power of its previous instruments while using up to 30% less power consumption....
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New Binaural Strategies for Enhanced Hearing
Tech Topic | October 2014 Hearing Review By Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi, PhD, Eghart Fischer, Dipl-Ing, and Marc Aubreville, Dipl-Ing This paper describes the new binaural directional features of binax,...
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Microson Expanding in Latin America; Launches Two New Devices at EUHA 2014
Microson, Barcelona, Spain, which is part of the GAES Group and is said to be Spain’s only hearing aid manufacturer (est 1958), launched two new products at the recent EUHA Congress in Hannover,...
View ArticleFDA Approves MED-EL’s Sonnet Audio Processor and Software
MED-EL USA has announced the FDA approval of its new SONNET behind-the-ear audio processor for cochlear implants, which is reportedly water-resistant, lightweight, and tamper-proof. It is programmed...
View ArticleUnitron Introduces North Platform; New Approach to the Variability of...
Unitron, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, has announced the launch of North™, a new sound processing platform that reportedly can distinguish between different types of conversation. According to Unitron,...
View ArticleLetters: Composer Richard Einhorn Comments on “Less May Be More for Music”
Dear Editor: Marshall Chasin’s provocative comments in his Back to Basics article, “Less May Be More for Music” (May 2015 Hearing Review), confirm best practices in the professional audio industry....
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