Category: Accessories

Accessories

MCK Audio Launches New Website

MCK Audio, the company making HearHooks and Companion Mics, has just launched a new website offering detailed product information, case studies, and research on music practices during a pandemic.

Accessories

Minuendo Enters N.A. Distribution Deal With E.A.R. Inc

Minuendo, a manufacturer of adjustable ear plugs, announced that it will supply its Minuendo Lossless earplugs to E.A.R. Customized Hearing, a distributor of hearing protection products and systems in North America.

Accessories

Survey Highlights Impact of COVID-19 on Hearing Loss

Ninety-five percent of people living with hearing loss in the United States say masks and facial coverings impact their ability to communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has also heightened levels of anxiety, social isolation, and other mental health-related effects among nearly half of the nation's hearing loss community.

Assistive Technologies

White House Uses ASL Interpreter During COVID-19 Briefing for ‘First Time,’ WJLA Reports

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) recently won a federal lawsuit that now compels the government, effective October 1, to include ASL interpreters as part of coronavirus briefings as well as on the White House's live web feed, according to WJLA.

Batteries & Power

EarTechnic Selects Energous Wireless Charging for Tie-X

Energous’ WattUp wireless charging technology is based on radio frequency (RF), which helps provide “a number of benefits for wireless charging, including the ability to fit into small form factor products and devices without flat surfaces.”

Components

New Circuit Design Could Help Make Wearable Sensors Lighter and More Flexible

The research team believe that the new fabrication process could result in a generation of ultralightweight, flexible electronics for wearables and sensors.

Earmolds

A New Solution for Automated 3D Virtual Modeling of Custom Hearing Aid Shells

Chester Pirzanski, a long-time expert in earmold impression and manufacturing, proposes a new invention and automated process for designing custom hearing aid shells and earmolds from digitized ear impressions.

Headphones

Eosera Launches Earbud Cleaning Kit

The kits contain 30 squares of cleaning putty, 10 sanitizing alcohol wipes, a magnifying glass, and two delicate brush heads.

Plugs & Tips

3M Mass Tort Now Includes Over 200,000 People, ‘Star-Tribune’ Reports

“The Minneapolis Star-Tribune” reports that over 200,000 people have joined a mass tort against 3M, alleging that Aearo’s Combat Arms earplugs “were knowingly defective, imperceptibly loosening and leaking in noise.” The Combat earplugs were acquired by 3M as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of Aearo Technologies in 2008.