Hearing aids have been getting a lot better over the years thanks to the tiny electronic hardware that can be packed inside and smart algorithms that produce great sound. Eargo is a company that’s trying to introduce new features to hearing aids to make them more comfortable, easier to use, and cheaper to afford, an […]
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ClearUP Electronic Gadget for Relieving Sinus Pain from Hay Fever
Tivic Health, based outside of San Francisco, won FDA clearance for its ClearUP device for treating allergy-related sinus pain. ClearUP is used to deliver electric current to the nose, the user sliding the device along the outside of the nasal passages while therapy is administered. The device delivers only a small electric current using a [&hellip (Read more...)
IQbuds Enhanced Hearing Devices at CES 2019
Hearing aids are usually expensive, but they’re not necessary appropriate for every person with hearing problems. The IQbuds from Nuheara, an Australian company, may help many folks hear the world around them with greater fidelity and ease. We g…
Loop High Fidelity Earplugs at CES 2019
Earplugs are typically just pieces of foam that are awkward to use and can ruin one’s carefully crafted style. At CES 2019 we got a chance to check out the Loop earplugs that look cool, have a unique design to dampen sound, and which may become popular by people that don’t like traditional earplugs. Product […]
Electronic Headband for Drug-Free Motion Sickness Therapy
Motion sickness can be a debilitating condition for many people, preventing them from traveling and engaging in various activities such as sailing. There are a few drugs available to control motion sickness, but they have side effects such as drowsiness and for many people are simply a choice of choosing one discomfort over another. A […]
Destigmatizing Hearing Loss with Technology: Interview with Eargo CEO Christian Gormsen
Today, 500 million people globally suffer from hearing loss, however, most individuals wait on average seven years before dealing with the condition due to a combination of factors, including stigmas and misconceptions related to hearing aids. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 40 million individuals live with untreated hearing loss. Stepping in to ad (Read more...)
FDA Clears Canon’s Vantage Orian 1.5 Tesla MRI
Canon Medical won FDA clearance to bring to the U.S. market its brand new Vantage Orian 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner. It features a wide 71 centimeter bore and quiet operation thanks to its Pianissimo and Pianissimo Zen technologies. Pianissimo makes all scanning sequences quieter, while Pianissimo Zen allows certain scans to be performed at near [&hellip (Read more...)
MRI Used to Study How Beatboxers Make Sounds
Beatboxers can make some pretty wild sounds, from deep bass thumps to snare drum cracks. How they do it is very much a mystery because the vocal chords and everything around them is hidden behind layers of tissue. Researchers at University of Southern California are using an MRI scanner to study this matter with the help […]
Barco’s New 27″ 4K Surgical Monitor
Barco is releasing a new 4K surgical monitor that’s designed to give clinicians a high fidelity live image during interventional procedures. The Barco MDSC-8427 has a 27” screen, providing a new, larger size over common 24″ and 26″ monitors. The display features the company’s smart image processing technology (Read more...)
MAGNETOM Sola MRI from Siemens with BioMatrix Technology Cleared by FDA
The FDA has cleared the MAGNETOM Sola 1.5 Tesla MRI machine from Siemens Healthineers, a device that features the company’s BioMatrix patient-centric technology, previously only available on 3 Tesla scanners. BioMatrix accounts for different patients sizes and body types, helping clinicians to prepare and perform scans so that rescans don&rsq (Read more...)
Leica’s Augmented Reality Surgical Microscope Combines Fluoroscopy and Natural Color Vision
Leica Microsystems won FDA clearance to introduce its GLOW800 augmented reality surgical fluorescence system for vascular neurosurgery. The system provides provides simultaneous, natural color view of the surgical field overlaid with real-time vascular flow, all with full depth perception and without any misalignment between the two images. Previou (Read more...)
Oticon Opn Hearing Aids Now Help Assess Hearing Health
Oticon, one of the big names in hearing aid products, is releasing a tool that helps people using hearing aids to learn more about their hearing health and to better understand how these devices are impacting their lives. The technology is available on the Oticon Opn hearing aids, including for patients that have already been […]
Philips Helium-Free MRI System Combines Productivity With High Quality Imaging
Philips has announced the launch of the Ingenia Ambition X 1.5T MR, the next offering in its portfolio of Ingenia MRI technologies. A core innovation of the Ingenia Ambition X system is Philips’ breakthrough BlueSeal fully-sealed magnet which contains less than 0.5% of helium compared to conventional systems and the helium doesn’t need (Read more...)
New Device Vibrates Skull to Diagnose Cause of Dizziness
Dizziness can be caused by a different underlying health problems, but identifying which is the culprit is not trivial. One technique is called a VEMP test (Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials), which requires the patient to listen to exceedingly loud popping sounds. These sounds, via a natural reflex, trigger the muscles in the eyes and nec (Read more...)
Focused Ultrasound and Intranasal Drug Delivery for Brain Cancer Therapy
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a new method to bypass the blood-brain barrier and deliver drugs to the brain, which could be particularly useful in difficult-to-treat brain tumors. The technique involves administering drugs through an intranasal spray, meaning that the drug can travel directly into the brain a (Read more...)
Livio AI Hearing Aids with Physical and Cognitive Health Monitoring
Starkey, one of the big hearing aid firms, is releasing a new device that works as a combination hearing aid, fitness monitor, and, surprisingly, as a tracker of cognitive health. In addition to all this, the new Livio AI hearing aids feature integrated language translation, connectivity to Amazon Alexa devices, and the ability to measure [… (Read more...)
7D Surgical’s Machine-Vision Image Guidance for Cranial Surgery FDA Cleared
7D Surgical out of Toronto, Canada won FDA approval to introduce its Machine-vision Image Guided Surgery (MvIGS) system for cranial surgery. The system uses cameras and computer vision algorithms to map the external anatomy without requiring any markers to be placed on the body. Typically, fiducial markers are placed on the skin that identify (Read more...)
GN Hearing Unveils ReSound LiNX Quattro Advanced Hearing Aid
GN Hearing, a company that makes audio technology that appears under names such as Beltone, Interton, and Jabra, just announced new hearing aid called ReSound LiNX Quattro. The firm describes it as “the world’s first Premium-Plus hearing aid,” delivering what it believes is the best sound quality and speech intelligibility availab (Read more...)
Hospital Introducing HoloLens Augmented Reality into the Operating Room
Alder Hey, an important children’s hospital in Liverpool, England, is working on integrating Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology into its operating theaters. The HoloLens is a headset that is able to overlay digital images onto a person’s field of view, essentially mixing virtual reality with the real world. The hospita (Read more...)
Optogenetic Cochlear Implants Aim to Improve Quality of Sound
At the University of Göttingen in Germany researchers have managed to use light to stimulate the auditory nerves of gerbils, in the process allowing the deaf animals to hear sounds. The technology is being developed to improve the audio quality of cochlear implants, devices that can bring hearing to people with several types of hearing [&helli (Read more...)