If you need a little help hearing better in noisy restaurants or are having trouble hearing the phone or understanding the dialogue on your favorite TV show, VitaSound Audio Inc. has a great new solution for you. The Canadian hearing aid company has packed some of its most sophisticated sound processing technology into a slick multifunction personal sound amplifier that not … [Read more...] about VitaSound Personal Audio Enhancer Provides Powerful Sound Processing
Personal Sound Amplifiers
VitaSound Puts High-End Hearing Aid Technology In A New PSAP
VitaSound Audio Inc., the Canadian hearing aid company known for its sophisticated Neuro-Compensator sound processing software, is taking its high-end technologies into the consumer market with a new personal sound amplifier. The new VitaSound Personal Audio Enhancer (PAE-300) is a multifunction amplifier that conditions and clarifies environmental sound as well as TV, phone … [Read more...] about VitaSound Puts High-End Hearing Aid Technology In A New PSAP
FDA Still Struggles To Explain Difference Between Hearing Aids And PSAPs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is continuing to split hairs as it attempts to draw a clear distinction between hearing aids, which are Class I medical devices subject to government regulatory oversight, and personal sound amplification products (PSAPs), which are not. While its recent draft guidance document updating its 2009 Regulatory Requirements has more … [Read more...] about FDA Still Struggles To Explain Difference Between Hearing Aids And PSAPs
Take It From The Hearing Aid Makers: Without Great Design, ‘Wearable Computing’ Products Will Go Nowhere
Google is stoking up the PR for Google Glass, its still-in-development "wearable computing" project that will let you view the web all day long through a tiny computer monitor attached to a pair of high-tech eyeglasses. But like many other tech companies that try to make consumer products, Google is struggling mightily in the design department. It's time they took a closer … [Read more...] about Take It From The Hearing Aid Makers: Without Great Design, ‘Wearable Computing’ Products Will Go Nowhere
SoundFest To Deliver iPhone App And Bluetooth Earpiece Making It Easier To Understand Speech In Noise
Plenty of traditional hearing aid companies and technology startups are reaching for the Holy Grail of hearing loss correction: a product enabling people to understand what their table mates are saying in noisy restaurants. But SoundFest Inc. of Boston is among the few using the ubiquitous Apple iPhone as a low-cost, high-quality signal processing platform to deliver a … [Read more...] about SoundFest To Deliver iPhone App And Bluetooth Earpiece Making It Easier To Understand Speech In Noise