Tue 29 May 2007
The new Oticon Epoq hearing aids can communicate wirelessly via a handheld streamer with any Bluetooth device. This means that the Epoq hearing aids will “ring” in your ear and allow you to use your cell phone without any of the special devices usually needed for this purpose. Because sound information is being continuously exchanged between the two ears, Oticon says that this will keep the two in sync and, when it comes to outside sounds, help localize where a sound is coming from.
Beyond just a cell phone, the Epoq hearing aids can stream audio from any stereo Bluetooth device. Now using a cell phone, listening to music, or using a computer is no longer such a hard thing. The Oticon Epoq hearing aids will be available soon in many different colors and styles. Cost will be around the $6000 range.
Product Page [ via Sydney Morning Herald ]
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:15 am
Dec 07, I feel like I am a beta tester. I have had four ear pieces go bad in less than 90 days.
The blue tooth transmitter cannot resolve multiple inputs, I realize it has only one output, but it should be able to pickup from two different cell phones and a mp3 player. If I am listening on my cell phone (the one that the hearing aids seem to favor) then the mp3 is shut off for the duration of the call. But I cannot use my AT&T business phone for listening to NPR radio, and have calls from my personal Sprint phone come through. Should have better programming.
February 14th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
The Nrkmann , i think you will need a Remote Control for these gearing aids, they cost 300$, but cool =]
February 14th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Hearing aids* sorry spelled wrong.
I had an appointment to audiologist, and she introduced me to Epoq hearing aid. The company has remote control for it. The Remote control is for connecting telephone/cellphone or music. It has 4 buttons or more: 1 for connecting music, 1 for telephone/cellphone, 3rd is volume – and + button ( or separate buttons) and 4rth is wireless connection to telephone or music players. The wire comes along with it =] in case if you have a telephone or player which is not matches your remote control with wireless connection. If you have an iPod and it works with wireless connection, it means you don’t need a wire to connect it, you can listen to ipod with wireless connection. After you connected the iPod to remote control (wireless or with wire connection) press button for Music, and it will send music from ipod to your hearing aid. This is cool, but quite expensive. Because this hearing aid cost 3000$ and the remote control 300$, together they are 3300$. If you ask will the remote control work with different hearing aid, about that i don’t known, it depends on what kind of hearing aid you have, will it match the remote control or not. But i think it will work with Epoq hearing aids, some hearings aids are on same level as Epoq hearing aids, but a bit diff in sound quality, and may have same functions. So maybe remote control might work but i think its cool of you have Epoq hearing aid which is matches perfectly with remote control. =]
February 14th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
“Cost will be around the $6000 range.” wow but she said 3000$, maybe for 1 ear? =] I use right ear only, the left is completely dead.
February 14th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
i mean deaf :p
September 30th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Bluetooth and hearing aids seems like a natural choice, thanks for posting this article!
October 29th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Great article on bluetooth, thanks!