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Hearing-Aid Users Driven To ‘Hack’ Their Devices

By admin | July 16, 2012

Hearing-aids are being customised and tweaked by software engineers and people who manage their own PCs and smartphones, the BBC has reported.

Read: Hearing-Aid Hackers Fine-Tuning Their Own Devices

Frustration results when aid-wearers can’t tune their own devices, plus the fact that hearing-aid brands, parts and accessories tend to be incompatible.

Interestingly, when Apple announced its iOS6 platform, the possibility of pairing hearing-aids with the iOS6 system for better listening was hinted at. Many iPhone-using wearers of hearing-aids and cochlear implants have long dreamed of having remote control apps for both, consolidated to the iPhone.

Further Reading

* Essential Hearing-Aid Tips For Parents And Families

* Customising Sound Technologies For Personal Use

* Question: Managing Hearing-Devices At Creches

* Preparing Kids For Mainstream Settings

* Have Hearing-Aids, Will Volunteer Overseas

* Communication Technology Solutions – By Design

Topics: Irish Deaf Kids | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Hearing-Aid Users Driven To ‘Hack’ Their Devices”

1. IDK Says:
   July 24th, 2012 at 6:59 pm

   Ironically, on July 19th, the news broke of Apple’s filing of two patents to improve the Apple user-experience for hearing-device wearers: http://bit.ly/NTgVuB

2. Keeping Hearing-Devices On Children At School | irish deaf kids Says:
   September 16th, 2012 at 9:20 pm

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