Thursday, October 14, 2010

Siemens Bluetooth Box Beams Music Direct to Hearing Aids



If you?re deaf, you don?t have many choices when it comes to portable music. The best way is probably some over-the-ear headphones which don?t touch your hearing aids and send them into a squealing feedback loop. But why not ditch the cans altogether and beam the music straight to the hi-fi buds already nestling in your canals?
That?s exactly what Siemens miniTek will do. It?s a little black box, slightly larger than the current iPod Nano, which can be combined with any of Siemen?s ?wireless hearing instruments?. It receives audio from any Bluetooth device (like your phone), equipment that uses an e2e wireless connection, T-coil systems (found in theaters, bank-tellers? booths and other public places) or a special adapter that can hook into TVs and so on. The remote-like box also has switches to control volume and answer calls, and has a jack for hooking up any other source.
The miniTek is pictured with some rather large earpieces, but will also work with hearing-aids which are recessed completely in the canal. It will run for five hours while streaming, or ?several days? as a remote, and charges fully in three hours. For the price, you?ll have to ask your hearing specialist.
This stuff is important. I have a very good friend who has been profoundly deaf since birth. Some years ago, she went to an fancy clinic and they hooked her up to a new kind of machine which let her hear things she?d never heard before. They played classical music. She cried.
Siemens miniTek [Siemens via Engadget]
See Also:
Amazing Hearing Aids Work with MP3 Players and Phones
Review: Sleek Audio SA6 In-Ear Headphones Sing to Your Ears ?
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