Etymotic Research Merges with Lucid Hearing/Lucid Audio
Updated March 28, 2018 Two well-known names and company owners in hearing device manufacturing are joining forces. Etymotic Research, Elk Grove Village, Ill, a long-time innovator in the hearing...
View ArticleBlamey Saunders Hears Launches Facett Hearing Aid
Blamey Saunders Hears—an Australia-based hearing aid company—announced it has unveiled Facett, a self-fit, modular hearing aid. Led by two Melbourne scientists, Professors Peter Blamey and Elaine...
View ArticleUS Hearing Aid Sales Up 5.7% in First Quarter 2018
[Click on image to enlarge.] Quarterly US net unit hearing aid sales for the private/commercial (blue) and VA (red) markets, with year-on-year percentages for each and overall sales increases in bold...
View ArticleSonova Presents New Product Line at AAA 2018
Sonova Holding AG, a provider of hearing solutions, announced that it will present its latest innovations at AAA 2018. The Group further broadens its portfolio of rechargeable hearing aids and expands...
View ArticleOticon Demonstrates Opn at AAA 2018
Oticon continues to expand the possibilities for Oticon Opn™ to benefit people with hearing loss and the hearing care professionals who serve them. At the 2018 American Academy of Audiology (AAA)...
View ArticleInnerScope ALPHA Devices Receive FDA Importers’ Registration Clearance
InnerScope Hearing Technologies announced it has been awarded its FDA importers registration clearances from the FDA for its ALPHA line of hearing aid devices, which will be sold online through its...
View ArticleOticon Korea to Become Vanish International Supplier
Oticon Korea and Vanish International announced that Oticon Korea would become the sole supplier of Vanish International’s product Vanish for the country of Korea. Oticon is said to be one of the...
View ArticleHansaton Launches AQ Jam SHD Behind-the-Ear Device
With the introduction of the AQ jam SHD with lithium-ion batteries, the Hamburg, Germany-based hearing system manufacturer HANSATON announced it is adding a behind-the-ear model to its portfolio of...
View ArticleBetter Speech-in-Noise Testing: Demonstration with Dual Variable Speed...
Tech Topic | August 2018 Hearing Review By Francis Kuk, PhD, Christopher Slugocki, PhD, and Petri Korhonen, MSc In recent years, researchers have questioned the validity of the way we compare the...
View ArticleWilliam Demant and Philips Enter into Hearing Aid Branding Partnership
William Demant, Copenhagen, has announced a licensing agreement with Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, to bring Philips-branded solutions to hearing healthcare. The agreement highlights the...
View ArticleGN Hearing Launches ReSound LiNX Quattro
GN Hearing announced the launch of ReSound LiNX Quattro™, said to be the world’s “first Premium-Plus” hearing aid solution. According to the company’s announcement, the LiNX Quattro is powered by new...
View ArticlePediatric Amplification, Noise Management, and Incidental Learning
Tech Topic | September 2018 Hearing Review Should noise reduction algorithms be used in pediatric hearing aid fittings? Here is an examination of the rationale and arguments from the literature which...
View ArticleSivantos Launches New Form Factor with Signia Styletto SLIM RIC
Signia Styletto By Karl Strom, editor Why should a hearing aid look like a hearing aid? That’s the question Sivantos engineers asked themselves when designing the new Signia Styletto...
View ArticlePhonak Virto B-Titanium Wins 2018 Red Dot and Gold Stevie Awards
Phonak Virto B-Titanium, reportedly “the world’s first” mainstream custom titanium hearing aid, is the winner of two international awards: the 2018 Red Dot Award for Product Design, and a Gold Stevie®...
View ArticleStarkey Launches Livio AI Hearing Aid with Integrated Sensors and Artificial...
Starkey Livio AI. Starkey® Hearing Technologies is said to have “reinvented both the hearing experience and the hearing aid” with Livio AI. Livio AI is reportedly “the world’s first” Healthable™...
View ArticleStarkey Ushers in New Era of Sensor and AI-driven Hearing Aids with Livio AI
Blog | Starkey Livio AI launch By Karl Strom, editor Starkey President Brandon Sawalich kicks off the Livio AI product launch at the company’s headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minn. On Monday, August 27,...
View ArticleWidex Announces New Insights into EVOKE Hearing Aid’s AI Function
Widex announced the first data gathered from the WIDEX EVOKE™ hearing aid, which is said to achieve “a new level of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” through machine learning, and is helping to bring new...
View ArticleSonic Introduces New Styles and Performance Levels for Enchant
Sonic announced the introduction of new custom styles and essential performance levels that the company says will bring Enchant’s combination of performance, features and functionality to even more...
View ArticleOticon Announces Five New Opn Custom Solutions Styles
Oticon announced the launch of five new custom hearing aid styles, including what is said to be the “smallest hearing aid style Oticon has ever produced,” using BrainHearing™ and Opn’s technology to...
View ArticleAudiologic Considerations for People with Normal Hearing Sensitivity Yet...
Research | October 2018 Hearing Review By Douglas L. Beck, AuD; Jeffrey L. Danhauer, PhD; Harvey B. Abrams, PhD; Samuel R. Atcherson, PhD; David K. Brown, PhD; Marshall Chasin, AuD; John Greer Clark,...
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