Cochlear is offering 15% off at the web store!
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Advanced Bionics Cyber Monday Offer
Today only, purchase one T-mic and get a second one for half price!
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Cochlear Receives PMA for Intra-Operative Remote
Cochlear implants are checked for NRI measurements and impedance checks in the operating room. Normally this involves the same computer and software that the audiologist uses when you go in for a tune-up. This newly-approved device is a small remote control that just performs the functions required in the operating room – no computer needed!
Read the PMA here.
Bionic Hand Increases Size of Cyborg Army
Bebionic3 Cyborg Hand is Perfect for Pouring a Beer, Doing Almost Anything Else
You can make a robotic arm and hand system as fancy as you want, but it has to be comfortable, lightweight, and easy to control or nobody is going to use it. The bebionic3 weighs just 550 grams (for the record, your hand and forearm weighs about 2.3% of your body weight), and as you can see in the vid, with a little bit of practice it’s controllable with muscle movements that are small and precise enough that the arm appears to just do what the user wants it to.
Advanced Bionics Top 10 Finalist Medical Device Manufacturer
The Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry has selected Advanced Bionics as one of the top 10 finalist companies for Manufacturer of the Year.
The 10 Finalists for MD+DI’s Manufacturer of the Year Grow Leaps and Bounds in Technology Innovation
Advanced Bionics is one of four companies held by Sonova Group, which specializes in hearing and wireless systems. MD+DI Lifetime Achievement award winner, Alfred E. Mann first established Advanced Bionics to focus on developing, manufacturing, and distributing cochlear implants for the restoration of hearing to the deaf. Advanced Bionics’ global headquarters is in Valencia, CA. Key technologies include the ClearVoice, which provides sound processing to enhance speech understanding, and the Neptune, a swimmable sound processor. Neptune was a 2012 MDEA finalist.
MED-EL RONDO US FDA Press Release
MED-EL announces the FDA approval of RONDO, and targets the spring of 2013 for availability in the USA.
MED-EL Announces the RONDO Single-Unit Processor
MED-EL has announced the “RONDO, the World’s First CI Single-Unit Processor, Now CE Mark and FDA Approved Coil, control unit, and battery pack are combined into a compact, single-unit audio processor design.”
Implanted Device – No Battery Needed!
In today’s issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology, a team of researchers from MIT, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) demonstrate for the first time that this battery could power implantable electronic devices without impairing hearing.
Sign Language to Text Gloves!
Four Ukrainian students have created gloves that allow speech- and hearing-impaired people to communicate with those who don’t use or understand sign language. The gloves are equipped with sensors that recognize sign language and translate it into text on a smart phone, which then converts the text to spoken words.
Learn more at enabletalk!
Nammu Swim Caps for Aqua Accessory
The Nammu Swim Cap is a stylish option to hold your processors securely when using the Aqua Accessory or aLOKSAK bag to keep your processor dry. Read this testimonial from a happy Nammu customer!
Update: Check out our review and video demo.
