by Bruce Brown | August 18, 2020 | Health
Wearable marketing reports from IDC and others have predicted for two years that shipments of hearables will help drive market growth for wearables worldwide. In the past few years, we’ve looked and written about at hearing assistance devices from NuHeara, Olive...
by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2018 | General News, Health
Nuheara introduced hearables at CES 2018 that would not have been legal six months earlier. IQbuds Boost’s Ear ID hearing threshold calibration analysis software incorporates National Acoustics Labs’ NAL-NL2 self-fit protocol. NAL-NL2 is an international,...
by Bruce Brown | August 9, 2017 | General News, Health
Even Republicans and Democrats agree that hearing loss is a major health and wellness issue in the U.S. According to the Hearing Loss Association of America, 1 in 5 people report having some level of hearing impairment. Among adults 65 and older, 1 in 3 have hearing...
by Alfred Poor | January 10, 2017 | General News, Health
As we reported last month, the FDA won’t enforce regulations requiring exams and prescriptions for hearing aids. And we predicted that we will see a lot of innovation — and perhaps even lower-priced products — to help people with impaired hearing in...