This isn't your grandmother's hearing aid (but maybe it should be!)
Maybe you notice that you’re starting to miss words during conversations in noisy restaurants. Or you find yourself reaching for the TV remote more and more to turn up the volume. Hearing loss is sneaky that way. It can be a slow descent into disability.
A big advance in hearing aids: streaming sound One of the biggest advances in hearing aids is their ability to use wireless Bluetooth technology to directly stream audio from other devices. No more annoying, whistling feedback. Instead, live sound from a TV, laptop or tablet is transmitted to a hearing aid through an app downloaded on your smartphone. Usually, it’s an app tied to the specific hearing aid model.
Oticon, one of the world’s oldest hearing aid companies — it started in 1904 — has kept up-to-date with its Oticon On app, which taps into the Internet of Things by “talking” to other devices. The app can be programmed to shut off the lights when you turn off your hearing aid at night, notify you when someone rings the doorbell and even let you know when the laundry is done.
Through an app called Thrive, Livio AI hearing aids track a person’s physical and social activity and calculate a daily wellness score. Specifically, it monitors steps taken and overall movement as well as how much time a person was engaged in conversation and how long he or she wore hearing aids in a day. The goal is to motivate people to stay physically and socially active.
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