Sonic Innovations, has been named an International CES Innovations 2010 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for the company’s Touch hearing aid. Touch was named the Best of Innovations Honoree in the Health and Wellness category. Products entered in this program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the media to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics proproducts acrooss 36 product categories.
Touch is available at three technology levels and comes in a choice of five base colors and 15 accent color clips. The three Touch products are readily identified by the number of processing channels. Touch 6 has six channels and two programs, Touch 12 has 12 channels and three programs, and Touch 24 has 24 channels, four programs and voice alerts. Westover noted that the Touch products incorporate many of the sound processing technologies present in Sonic Innovations’ Velocity series of hearing solutions. Touch provides natural sound quality, noise reduction and the finest directionality, driven by Sonic’s unique DIRECTIONALfocus technology.
Sonic Innovations’ Touch will be displayed at the 2010 International CES, which runs January 7-10, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Innovations Design and Engineering Showcase will feature honorees by product category in the Grand Lobby of the Las Vegas Convention Center and will also be featured at CES Unveiled: The Official Press Event of the International CES on Tuesday, January 5, 2010.