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Android 10 Launched with Focus on Hearing Loss Accessibility

Content Director03 September 2019Google's long-awaited update to its Android smartphone operating system is finally here. As expected, it's chock-full of major accessibility improvements for people with hearing loss and hearing aids. And it's already providing wireless streaming directly to hearing aids from Google's Android Pixel phones.

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Adam Savage: Hearing Aids “Freaking Changed My Life”

Content DirectorUpdated 09 August 2019If you've watched Adam Savage blow things up on his MythBusters TV show or put things together on his Tested YouTube channel, you may have heard him mention he wears hearing aids. In fact, one of the biggest myths he has tried to bust is the idea that hearing aids make you feel old. Instead, he'll tell you that hearing aids "freaking changed my life."

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Advanced Bionics Makes Cochlear Implants Bluetooth-Compatible

Content Director09 March 2019Advanced Bionics is opening up the world of wireless, hands-free iPhone and Android smartphone connectivity to its cochlear implant patients for the first time. Its new Naída CI Connect receiver turns any Naída CI Q90 sound processor into a wireless Bluetooth headset.

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Alango’s BeHear Hearables Take On Bose Hearphones

Content DirectorUpdated 28 July 2019Will Alango’s BeHear NOW headsets compete successfully with the popular Bose Hearphones? Alango has a great product with a lower price. Coupled with what I’m calling its “Trojan Horse” distribution strategy, Alango is entering the burgeoning “hearables” market well prepared to compete with the consumer electronics giant.

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Bose to Launch Self-Fitting Hearing Aid

Doctor of Audiology04 October 2018Image depicts the Bose SoundSport Free wireless earphones.Today, the FDA announced the approval of the “Bose Hearing Aid”, a new self-fitting hearing aid. Bose has effectively been granted a very unique position by the FDA; they have been given permission to market the Bose Hearing Aid as a self-fitting hearing aid at a time when over-the-counter hearing aid regulations have not yet been finalized.

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25+ Tinnitus Facts and Findings You Need To Know Now

WRITTEN BYNYT Bestselling Author. Tech Analyst.Updated 10 July 2019Ever heard the one about the guy who kept trying to reach the tinnitus helpline? When he finally got through, voicemail told him to just leave his message … at the sound of the tone. Joking aside, if you’re one of the 50 million Americans who report ringing in the ears, there is nothing funny about tinnitus.

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