I have been using the Amplicom PowerTel 500 cordless telephone for a month, and it's the first cordless handset I've tried that works well enough with my hearing aids to combine the superior clarity of a land-line phone with the portable convenience of my wireless cellular phone. It also combines amplification and sound-shaping features for hearing-impaired users with all the … [Read more...] about Product Review: Amplicom PowerTel 500 Cordless Phone Combines Land-Line Clarity With Wireless Convenience
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Amplicom Enters North American Market With PowerTel 500 Amplified Phone For Consumers Who Need Hearing Assistance
Amplicom, the German supplier of amplified telephones and other assistive listening devices (ALDs) for hard-of-hearing consumers, has entered the North American market with first shipments of its family of PowerTel corded and cordless amplified phones. Amplicom USA, based in New York, said the new phones meet the Telecommunications Industry Association's TIA-1083 hearing-aid … [Read more...] about Amplicom Enters North American Market With PowerTel 500 Amplified Phone For Consumers Who Need Hearing Assistance
Phonak Dynamic Soundfield Technology Turns The Classroom Into A Giant Hearing Aid
Soundfield classroom amplification systems have improved the education and lives of thousands of schoolchildren who otherwise would miss valuable instruction simply because they cannot hear their teachers well enough to understand what they are teaching. Now Phonak has put its vast experience designing hearing aids to use with a next-generation soundfield system featuring a … [Read more...] about Phonak Dynamic Soundfield Technology Turns The Classroom Into A Giant Hearing Aid
Hatis Assistive Listening Devices Make Hearing Aids Phone- and iPod-Friendly
To listen to an iPod or communicate successfully on the phone, even on my most powerful amplified phone, I need to hear with both ears. I've found the best way to accomplish that trick is with a line of products from Hatis that plug into my iPod and my phones. … [Read more...] about Hatis Assistive Listening Devices Make Hearing Aids Phone- and iPod-Friendly
Good Design Trumps All Else, Even In The Portable Bed-Shaker Market
OK, I finally bought the bed shaker I was stressing about in a post a few weeks ago. I'd been planning to buy Shake Awake, because several people had recommended it to me. But I went with the Sonic Shaker portable vibrating alarm clock from Sonic Alert instead. … [Read more...] about Good Design Trumps All Else, Even In The Portable Bed-Shaker Market