What’s New in Hearing Aid Technology
What's new in Hearing Aid Tech: 2020-2021 Like most technology-based products every few years we get an updated, higher-tech version. Hearing aids are no different... we've come a long way from the 'ear trumpets' of old. So here's what's new in hearing aid technology, 2020-2021 edition! 2020 Tech In 2020 we saw some pretty cool updates to hearing aids. With newer technology and smaller microchips, hearing aids are able to do more and at faster speeds; turning them into even more complex 'supercomputers.' For instance, earlier this year Starkey and Phonak released hearing aids with "body tracking." In the Phonak Virto Marvel Black, this means biometrics that are able to monitor your blood pressure. Their first step into health monitoring. Starkey Livio AI and Livio Edge AI also include body tracking as well as brain tracking, and their new artificial intelligence (or AI) features. AI includes things like find my phone, reminders, and transcribing text as you hear it. They've also talked about the AI feature eventually being able to translate languages as you hear them. Pretty cool right! Signia also did some updates in 2020. The Signia Silk was again updated in 2020 with a new microchip and continues to be one of the smallest, non-custom hearing aids available. The latest update from Starkey included the first-ever rechargeable custom hearing aid, the Livio Edge rechargeable Custom aid. Up until now, custom hearing aids, or what we call In-The-Ear or In-The-Canal hearing aids were only available with...
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