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Listen In With The Jacoti Hearing Suite at CES

Launched at CES and a 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree, the Jacoti Hearing Suite is set of cloud-enabled mobile applications to help people with their hearing. Jamie Davies hears more from Jacques Kinsbergen, CEO of Jacoti. The Jacoti Hearing Suite app uses the owner's smartphone for three key hearing services. First testing hearing, second working as a hearing aid and third providing assisted listening

Smart Hearing Aids from Siemens at CES

As people get older, one of the more common complaints is of hearing loss. Many of those getting older now have grown up with technology and expect more than brown lumps of plastic which simply won't do in an Apple-designed world. Today's hearing aids are small, discreet and smart. Todd hears about the latest products from Thomas Powers of Siemens Hearing

Able Planet’s “health improving” headphones

AblePlanet is an audio company that makes a lot of hearing hardware, aids, microphones and more. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company showed off personal sound amplifiers --  which is not, strictly speaking, a hearing aid, but more of a boost to sound that will help in environments where listing can be an issue. However,

Hearing Loss Help From ClearSounds

Surprisingly, one in five Americans over the age of 12 has hearing loss severe enough to affect communication and in over a third of the cases, the loss is from noise exposure, not age. ClearSounds produces a range of stylish products that help people overcome their hearing loss and communicate again. Andy and Courtney talk to company president, Michele Alman

Etymotic BlastPLG™ Earplugs

My maternal Grandmother worked in a paper factory for 15 years before she retired. This was in the late fifties and early sixties before the idea of workers wearing protective gear including earplugs existed. Her hearing was damaged due to the noise and by the time she passed away almost 18 years later she was nearly totally deaf. So hearing