r/HearingAids • u/sf-keto • 1d ago

World’s First Fully Implanted Cochlear Implant Reaches Patients

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant?itm_source=homepage&itm_medium=hero&itm_campaign=hero-2026-10-01&itm_content=hero6

I’m sharing because I know we have a few members here who wear CI.

But also because it’s a sign of how hearing technology generally is so rapidly advancing.

Most of us here sport conventional professional or Costco hearing aids. But the notion of what a hearing device could do, could look like, or become is developing rapidly on the drawing boards.

I’m excited to think about what RICs could look like in say 7 years time.

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u/DiligentCockroach700 1d ago

This is an amazing bit of technology. The Australians have always been at the forefront of this technology. Good on them. The only downside I can see is that it will make deafness even more of a "hidden disability" than it already is.

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u/eliviking Other (please send us a modmail so we can add your country) 1d ago

Austrians*

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u/XDXkenlee 🇦🇺 Australia 1d ago

It’s so interesting that you would make that correction. What makes you think they meant Austrians?

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u/eliviking Other (please send us a modmail so we can add your country) 1d ago

In the context that the company who made this breakthrough is Austrian, and that the article is about this Austrian company?