In addition to Bluetooth devices, the miniTek can receive audio from gear that uses e2e wireless connections or T-coil systems, and it has a 3.5mm jack for whatever non-wireless equipment you might come across. All in all, you’re pretty thoroughly covered.
The miniTek can stream audio for five hours or last for a few days as a remote – it has buttons for controlling volume, answering calls and so on. If you’ve already got Siemens hearing devices in yo’ ears, it makes perfect sense to put them on double duty. Talk to your hearing specialist for pricing. [Siemens via Wired]
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Monday, July 11, 2011 at 3:39 PMHearing aids have a microphone to detect the sound and a receiver to deliver the amplified sound. However, instead of internal components for filtering and limiting the sound, there is a digital signal processor or mini-computer. The incoming analogue sound signal has to be filtered, sampled and converted to a series of numbers. Then the digital signal processor processes the sequence of numbers to perform specific operations to filter or compress the sound. The hearing aid is programmed to the user’s requirements using a computer.
John
Friday, March 9, 2012 at 11:51 AMOK, the bluetooth thingy (minitek) is an external device that must be near the aid, and not more than 10m from the source (bluetooth limit is 10m).
So … using it with a mobile phone would seem to be one way traffic only, as the iads do not have mikes for talking into. How is the use of this technology any better than a wired earpiece/microphone lik, apart from the fact that the earpiece is double duty as hearing aid?
What would be so hard in getting a bluetooth headset and inserting a hearing aid circuit into it? Size might be an issue, but the usefulness would be increased many times! Bluetooth in the car is a problem because of the ambient noise, and the fact that the microphone is always dash or A-pillar mounted, and too far from my mouth for effective use, and the speaker is likewise distant, so I cannot clearly hear without stopping to listen – sort of defeats the purpose of bluetooth comms in the car, though!