According to the researchers at Brandeis University, the effort that one has to expend to listen with untreated hearing loss is associated with increased stress levels and significantly poorer performance on memory tests. Research by Dr. Arthur Wingfield shows that people who have undiagnosed hearing loss understand the words that are spoken to them,…
Oticon has upgraded its portfolio of OPN hearing aids with the launch of Tinnitus SoundSupport™, a new technology that will provide relief to those with tinnitus. “We want to help change the perception that when people have tinnitus there’s nothing they can do,” said Gitte Maj Schrøder, Product Manager at Oticon. “With these new improvements…
Researchers at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have unveiled a new type of hearing aid designed to analyze the wearer’s brain activity in order to identify who the wearer is listening to. This new “cognitive hearing aid” could be a game changer in environments with a lot of background noise or in…
Apple has developed a new Bluetooth technology in order to address the issues of battery drain that hearing aid wearers experience when using their Made for iPhone hearing aids. The solution to the battery drain problem is the new Bluetooth Low Energy Audio (BLEA) protocol, which will be able to stream audio while preserving the…