Jan Janssen: Cochlear’s engineering team has had an ongoing collaboration with Apple’s team dedicated to ‘accessibility’ and expanding Made for iPhone technology to more people. Mike Batista, Medgadget : Where did the opportunity to work with Apple on the next generation of Nucleus technology originate? To learn more about how the Nucleus 7 takes an important step forward in closing the technology gap for some 360 million individuals worldwide living with hearing loss, Medgadget had a chance to speak with Jan Janssen, Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Cochlear. The Nucleus 7 is expected to be available in the US and Canada by September of this year. Through this integration, such individuals can directly stream sound from their iPhone to their implant to use features like FaceTime, teleconferencing, or auditory map navigation directly from their mobile device. Adding the ability to directly interface with mobile technologies to its line of cochlear implant sound processors extends this significant improvement in quality of life to those living with even more severe levels of hearing loss. Known for it’s Nucleus cochlear implant and Baha bone conduction implant technologies, Cochlear previously released the world’s first Made for iPhone bone conduction sound processor in 2015.
Cochlear, a medical device company at the forefront of the world’s hearing implant market, has announced the Nucleus 7 Sound Processor, the world’s first Made for iPhone cochlear implant sound processor, in partnership with Apple.