Welcome

Thank you for visiting Hearing Products News. We report on products, technology and services for anyone who needs help with their hearing, for anyone who provides services to people needing hearing assistance, and to everyone in the hearing-products industry developing new technologies to provide better hearing assistance to those who need it. From hearing aids to cochlear implants to amplified telephones and other assistive listening devices, we cover the hearing-industry landscape.

We also cover the ground between traditional hearing aids and consumer electronics, where digital technologies such as Bluetooth wireless communication, advanced audio enthusiast products, and new uses of video communication on the web and over the airwaves are revolutionizing the way people share and comprehend information. We hope to spend as much time looking at the Apple iPhone (will it EVER be hearing-aid compatible?) as we do with the latest advances in digital signal processing technologies for hearing aids and other products.

The publisher, editor and current sole contributor to Hearing Products News is Dave Copithorne, a long-time publishing and marketing communications professional who lost much of his hearing in 2002 and has since spent much of his time exploring how to use new products and technologies to cope with hearing loss. Dave’s personal blog, Hearing Mojo, has attracted a following from consumers and hearing-industry insiders looking for more in-depth information on the products and technologies available to them–above and beyond the often self-serving press releases from vendors that other hearing-assistance industry sites reprint verbatim.

Hearing Products News is a strictly online publication and as such is truly interactive. It’s like a blog, enabling readers to join the conversation by posting comments on stories. But it’s also like an online magazine in that we have multiple sections dealing with topics ranging from new technologies to the issues audiologists must deal with in working with patients. There is plenty of space for advertising, and we intend to take advantage of video as much as possible to explain new concepts that words alone sometimes cannot adequately describe.

As such, we hope Hearing Products News will provide a service for both consumers and suppliers of hearing-enhancement products and technologies. Providing an independent, objective middle ground between consumers’ needs for better products and manufacturers’ needs to explain and promote what’s new, Hearing Products News hopes to facilitate and contribute to a constructive dialog that will power contribute to the hearing industry’s commitment to deliver a constant stream of innovative solutions that improve people’s lives.

– Dave Copithorne