by Bruce Brown | November 17, 2022 | Health
Health Tech Insider often covers new developments in hearable technology, starting well before the 2017 OTC Hearing Aid Act legislation. The law directed the FDA to create a category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. The act’s intent is to loosen...
by Bruce Brown | June 23, 2022 | Health
Hearables account for a growing segment of the wearables market. In 2021, IDC predicted hearables would dominate the double-digit growth in wearables overall through 2024. Most developers in the hearables category focus on devices, in categories such as earbuds,...
by Bruce Brown | March 3, 2022 | Health
World Hearing Day is today, March 3, 2022. On this day each year the Office of Prevention of Blindness and Deafness of the World Health Organization (WHO) hosts an event at the WHO headquarters. Activities related to preventing hearing loss and improving hearing care...
by Bruce Brown | January 11, 2022 | Health
Listen up! Two European hearing technology companies recently announced a new type of hearable. Mimi Hearing Technology is a Berlin-based company that creates digital healthcare hearing tests and and sound personalization profiles based on the tests....
by Bruce Brown | October 14, 2021 | Health
As Baby Boomers grow older, we don’t want anyone bringing that fact to our attention. We were the post World War II babies who were brought up believing that we were a golden generation for whom anything would be possible. Because WWII was “the war to end...