Cochlear

In a world first, Amazon has partnered with Cochlear to make watching movies and shows more accessible for folks with hearing loss by streaming audio from a Fire TV device directly to a Cochlear hearing implant's sound processor.

The installation of a cochlear implant is a tricky procedure, in which certain nerves may be damaged if the surgeon isn't careful. A new "smart" surgical drill is designed to help, by automatically shutting off if it gets too close to those nerves.

Although cochlear implants do allow some deaf people to hear again, adjusting the devices to individual users can be challenging. An experimental new implant is designed to help in that regard, by reading the user's brain waves.

For the first time, researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia have used cochlear implants to regenerate auditory nerves through gene therapy, a process where therapeutic DNA is inserted into cells to treat a disease.

Regular cochlear implants incorporate external components that get in the way and are visually unappealing. Now, however, fully internal implants may be coming.

Scientists are developing implantable devices that run off of naturally-occurring power generated by a chamber within the inner ear.

U.S researchers are developing a tiny middle ear "microphone" that could remove the need for any external components on cochlear implants.

A new cochlear implant is designed to alleviate vertigo attacks caused by Meniere's disease.

The Outer Ear converts sound waves into physical vibration that hearing impaired or deaf people can feel on their skin.

Cochlear has launched a new direct bone conduction device, the BAHA BP100, that delivers significant improvements in speech understanding in noisy situations (about 25%) and better bone conduction hearing performance than ever before.

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