Two brand
new models of advanced hearing aids can be adjusted with exquisite precision
through software built into Apple’s iPhone. They NOW allow fine-grain control
over acoustic systems. “This state-of-the-art technology will give
people with hearing loss the ability to outperform their normal-hearing
counterparts,” said Dave Fabry, a Starkey vice president, whose
company along with GN ReSound Linx developed this technology, each
independently.
Researchers from both Starkey and GN ReSound used the iPhone as a way to correct problems that had forever hampered hearing aids using a low-power version of Bluetooth wireless technology. The phone could act as a remote control, a brain, and an auxiliary microphone and it would finally let people make phone calls and listen to music without carrying a wireless device.
Researchers from both Starkey and GN ReSound used the iPhone as a way to correct problems that had forever hampered hearing aids using a low-power version of Bluetooth wireless technology. The phone could act as a remote control, a brain, and an auxiliary microphone and it would finally let people make phone calls and listen to music without carrying a wireless device.
“I’m surprised they haven’t done this
earlier — putting it all in an app, that seems so obvious these days,” said Todd
Chamberlain, a 39 year-old industrial safety officer who has worn hearing aids
since he was 3 years old.
original New York Times article
