Hearing Technologies

The pioneering hearable company, Bragi, has unveiled its latest innovations this week. The company announced two new additions to its product line: Dash Pro and the Dash Pro Tailored by Starkey. The Dash Pro is said to be re-engineered to address issues encountered with the original Dash, along with updated OS3 software. According to the company, the Dash Pro offers

Innomdle Lab was one of the first startups businesses to come out of Samsung’s Creative Lab. Its TipTalk device initially debuted at CES and received a lot of buzz in 2016. Now the company say it’s ready to publicly launch its product to the market this summer under the name Sgnl. The company’s fundraising campaign has raised more than $2

By Matthew Bromwich, M.D. Like most clinical tests, audiometry produces only a snapshot of a single point in time. For that single moment, you know the truth, but only for that one moment.  Unfortunately, many diseases are either fluctuating or progressive in nature and these snapshots can be misleading and must therefore be understood in a broader clinical context. A

After raising nearly $4.5 million in an indiegogo campaign last June, more than $1 million than the Bragi Dash hearable did during its initial fundraising campaign, Waverly Labs is set to release its highly-anticipated hearable: Pilot. The Brooklyn-based company has dubbed the Pilot the “World’s first translating earpiece”. The Pilot promises a high-tech solution to bridge the communication divide among

by Mara Brugés Polo, Editor-In-Chief, Audio Infos Latin America Professionals tend to think that, by and large, the greater options offered by fitting a hearing aid will bring an overall improvement; in the elderly, however, this “more means better” does not always work out. Sometimes, it is advisable to start with basic things and then gradually carry out a training

NAERUM, DENMARK  — The Ida Institute launched an all-new eLearning platform for hearing care professionals and newly expanded Telecare tools for clients last week at the AudiologyNOW! convention in Indianapolis. The new learning platform, Ida Learning Hall, offers “bite-size” learning modules that allows busy professionals to easily incorporate learning into their schedules. Two new Telecare tools now available on Ida’s

After Sivantos announced the launch of their first “Made for iPhone” hearing aids, the Signia Pure 13BT devices, the company joined the ranks of other major hearing aid manufacturers offering 2.4GHz-enabled hearing aids. While most hearing aid manufacturers have developed their own proprietary wireless systems over the years, the 2.4GHz system that was first adopted and widely promoted by GN ReSound

STAEFA, SWITZERLAND — Sonova, parent company to the Phonak, Unitron and Hansaton hearing aid brands, announced a new lineup of lithium-ion rechargeable devices last month. The release of the new products come less than a year after Phonak became the first major hearing aid manufacturer to utilize lithium-ion technology in its Audeo B-R Receiver-in-Canal (RIC) hearing aid. According to the

By Garrett Thompson “The Young and the RIC-less: Musings from a Millennial Audiologist” is a new quarterly column by Garrett Thompson.   How can we use empathy to improve the UX of the patient, and why are young audiologists the perfect group to champion this change? From smartphone apps to Gmail to the iPhone itself, young AuDs grew up with

Editor’s Note: It is my pleasure to introduce a new quarterly column to HHTM. It is one geared toward our younger readers – those newly minted audiologists and hearing instrument specialists with a fresh perspective that all our readers can appreciate. Young clinicians, graduate students and other millennials who have grown up with technology and can seamlessly navigate new hearing