iPhone = Hearing Aid? July 12, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile.trackback
I’ve come across a great collection of 7 useful iPhone medical application on Mashable. But my favourite new app of the week is the SoundAMP which I found on Medgadget.
A new application for the Apple iPhone has been designed to aid people with poor hearing, featuring abilities that not even a hearing aid can boast of. Essentially a volume booster, the app amplifies everything that is being heard by the microphone and allows the user to set which frequencies to boost and which to filter. Additionally, the application continuously keeps a recorded buffer of what it hears, allowing you to quickly replay the last five to thirty seconds of a misheard conversation.
Nice. And probably needed by more and more people playing their music way to loud on this and similar devices.
iPhone just keeps thinking of new apps. There is literally a app for everything! This is great for people that are hearing impaired along with others that will become hearing impaired.
It’s about time! The iPhone is the only, and I mean only, cellphone that is NOT hearing-aid compatible. it took two years, and they still don’t have a telecoil, which the vast majority of ANALOG phones have had for decades. The hearing Loss Assn had to file a complaint against them with the FCC.
And they say they’re the tech leader. Puh-leez.
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This is great information.
It is of great help to those of us who are habitually connected to the earplug from this device.
Check out this hearing aid app.
http://www.ear-machine.com/EARs.html
So this means I shouldn’t have any problems using the iphone with this software? Correct?
that’s pretty interesting. I just bought a pair of hearing aids that I can myself program. I bought them from http://www.my-hearingworld.com and I’m wondering if something like this is possible to use or program with my iphone? I guess i’m wondering if there’s an app?
The reduction in internal mechanical and electronic controls increases the available space for other essential components and might well increase reliability. Each digital hearing aid can be programmed in many different ways. This means that fewer models are required to meet the needs of the infinite variety of hearing impaired patients that are encountered.
Is it compatible with the iPhone 4?
Please let me know
Yes iPhone have hearing aids mode. If you go to General setting then accessibilty, there you will see the Hearing aids mode. Ive test it out with my cochlear implant and its work. But because we have a new iPhone 4s and I have a business account with Apple, I have been invited to test out some application to see if it work for us.
I will let you know how it went.