Starkey Laboratories, Inc., one of the world’s leading hearing technology companies, is excited to introduce Sweep™ Technology – providing a completely new way to adjust hearing aids. Sweep Technology, featured on the new S Series™ behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing instrument, replaces all of the traditional hearing aid buttons and dials with an innovative touch surface that allows users to adjust volume and change settings with the simple sweep or touch of a finger. Even patients with limited dexterity can easily change their hearing aid settings.
“This technology makes hearing aids both smarter and simpler,” said Jerry Ruzicka, President of Starkey. “We have spent three years researching and developing a way to package this advanced touch surface technology into a hearing aid – and it paid off. Patients in our clinical trails have overwhelmingly preferred Sweep Technology to traditional controls.”
Traditional hearing aid buttons, switches and dials are often difficult for patients to find and manipulate. With Sweep Technology, there is no mechanical movement required for activation, no push buttons that oxidize and fail with time, and no openings around the volume control wheel that allow moisture and dirt to enter the hearing aid. The sweep surface is a single seamless control, giving patients full access to volume, memory and standby controls – smarter technology that makes patients’ lives simpler.
Here’s how it works: