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Oticon Mobile
Adapting your hearing aid with mobile telephone is easy with Oticon. Because the Streamer operates with Bluetooth, all you have to do is pair it with your mobile telephone. Once that’s done, you can answer you’re free to answer calls anywhere, with the caller’s voice streamed directly into your instruments.
Oticon Agil, A Hearing Aid 106 Years in the Making
Oticon created Agil, the next generation in hearing care technology. Agil was developed based on years of research and development, as well as input from hearing aid users around the world. It includes Oticon’s newest RISE 2 processor, which allows for clear and natural sounding communication.
Agil features two new hearing technology concepts; Spatial Sound 2.0 and Speech Guard. Both of these features were designed to help users interpret the sounds around them, allowing them to participate in conversations with ease. Spatial Sound 2.0 helps users to determine where a sound originated from, and select which sounds they want to listen to. Speech Guard preserves the individuality of a person’s voice, allowing for users to identify the voices of those people they want to listen to. Agil is designed to be more than just a hearing aid; it’s designed to be a communication device. When combined with Oticon’s ConnectLine series of products, Agil provides users with that all important link to technology. Using Bluetooth, Agil can connect to cell phones, and become a hands free device and with the simple touch of a button on the ConnectLine Streamer, Agil users can connect users to their television, landline phone, mp3 player and computer.
Panasonic entering the hearing aid market.
Panasonic Corporation of North America, announced that Panasonic Hearing instruments have been delivered to the U.S. market. The company is debuting three types of digital hearing instruments, including a new form factor that resembles the style of an MP3 player, a receiver-in-canal and behind-the-ear models.
Scottish company launches hearing aid device
Hearing Enhancement, in Livingston, West Lothian, has created a system which stops aids from emitting a loud whistling noise when a mobile is held close. The invention coincides with a campaign by the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) to persuade the Scottish Executive to pay for digital hearing aids.
The charity said Scotland had fallen behind England and Wales in the modernisation of hearing aid services. According to the RNID, one in five of the adult population in Scotland is deaf or hard of hearing. It said 500,000 of these 730,000 people would benefit from a modern digital hearing aid, yet only 1.6% actually have one
Posted: August 27th, 2010 under digital hearing aids, hearing aid news.