New smartphone-based hearing solutions are marketed to ‘boomers’ or seniors, but the reality is that a tech-savvy youth population with partial hearing similarly wants discreet hearing-solutions for their daily lives.
Bluetooth Links
Wireless connectivity between hearing-devices and smartphones is a trend, as digital protocols open up and active people seek miniature hearing-solutions to access their phones, TVs, car radios, sat-nav and MP3 content.
Read: Better Hearing Through Bluetooth?
Jail-breaking Hearing-Aids
Open connectivity for digital hearing-devices is being led by consumers who want to control their devices as wearable tech (or ‘hearable’ tech) and detest ‘closed’ digital hearing-devices.
How about an app with GPS, to store your hearing-settings for a noisy cafe or bar, with your sound-levels altering as you walk in the door? This is a reality, with the Beltone First “made for iPhone” personal sound-system.
Read: iHear With My iPhone
The Beltone First hearing-solution will work as personal headphones, whose wearers can save settings to stream music, phone calls, GPS directions and other audio content directly to these hearing-aids as wished. Exactly what the younger population with hearing issues wants from digital solutions.
More Reading
- Hearing-Aids Double As Tiny Media Devices
- iHear: The Hearing Aid That Calibrates Over The Internet
- BioAid: The Biologically Inspired Hearing Aid
- iHear Devices Concern Audiologists
- iPhone Hearing-Aids As Personal Amplifiers
- An iPhone Hearing Aid That Will Make Everyone Want One
- Apple iOS Brings Better Control To Hearing Aids
- AllJoyn: A Common Language For The Internet of Things (IoT)
- LG’s Smart Bulb Could Be Revolutionary For Deaf People
- Hearing-Aids As Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs)
- Pairing iPhones With Digital Hearing-Devices
- DeafAlarm app alerts when an alarm sounds in vicinity
- Customising Sound Technologies For Personal Use
