in this video I'm talking about Bluetooth connectivity with Advanced Bionics cochlear
implants and their new 3D magnet coming up hi guys Cliff Olson Doctor of Audiology and
founder of applied hearing solutions in anthem Arizona and on this channel I cover a bunch of
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every time I post a new video cochlear implant manufacturer Advanced Bionics has recently made
some nice additions to their already impressive cochlear implants and they're not accuser the
Advanced Bionics t-mic which is a microphone that hangs in front of your ear canal was originally
intended to improve microphone placement for use on the telephone and it worked really well but
there's an even better option out there and that is to take Bluetooth and stream audio directly
from your phone into your processor now with t-mic still works great if you're gonna hold
the phone up to your ear but if you don't want to hold the phone up to your ear you don't have the
capability with an Advanced Bionics processor to stream audio directly from your smart device that
is until now because Advanced Bionics now has the CI connect it's a very small attachment that you
actually put on the bottom of your cochlear implant processors battery so this is how it
works you have the processor here and then you actually just slide that on to the bottom and
now this cochlear implant processor the Q90 is now compatible with a smart device you can
stream audio directly from that device into your cochlear implant Advanced Bionics has developed
the CI Connect to connect to any Bluetooth device so you can stream audio books podcasts telephone
calls YouTube videos whatever can actually play audio you can stream that audio directly into
your processor now it doesn't matter if it's an Android phone if it's an iPhone if it's a brick
phone or if it's a tablet you can connect the CI connect to any one of these types of devices as
long as it has Bluetooth and you can send whatever the audio is from that device directly into your
processor this is because the dance bionics is using Bluetooth classic. Bluetooth classic is
the type of Bluetooth that you will find inside of most consumer electronics so basically the
CI Connect is that little attachment that you actually put on the bottom of a 170 battery
for the Naidas and so when you're actually wearing your cochlear implant what you do is when a phone
calls coming in let's say you click the button on the bottom of the processor and it will answer
that phone call for you so you don't even need your phone on you I think Bluetooth distance
is going to be up to around 30 feet depending on how many walls it has to go through for you but
you don't need your phone on you to be able to answer the phone and even talk on the phone and
that audio will go right from your phone into your processor so you can hear it and then the
microphones there's actually two microphones here and it uses a little bit of directionality to pick
up the sound of your voice and send it through to the other end of the line now as awesome as the CI
Connect is you can only use it on one processor at a time so if you're a bimodal user or if you are a
bilateral cochlear implant user and you actually have one of these on both of your processors you
can still only connect to one ear at a time the one exception is the TV connector box the TV
connector box will actually let you stream in to both of your cochlear implants if you happen to
have two of them you can also connect it to other things other than your TV so if you wanted to
listen to sound from your laptop for instance you could use the 3.5 millimeter jack plug that into
your laptop and you'll be able to stream directly from your laptop into both of your processors as
well the other limitation is there's not really a smartphone app that you can interact with your
cochlear implants with so you can't go in and make remote control adjustments or anything like
that from a smartphone app because it basically doesn't exist all that being said you got to be
pretty psyched right now if you're Naida Q90 user because now you have the ability to bluetooth
into your processor the other thing that Advanced Bionics has rolled out recently is their 3d magnet
for their high res Ultra 3d cochlear implant this magnet which you can see here replaces
their old magnet that now allows you to receive a 3.0 Tesla MRI without requiring the splints or
the need to surgically remove the magnet from the implant before the MRI the magnet is composed of
four rotatable magnet rods encased in a revolving disc that allows the magnet to provide alignment
with the MRI field in all three dimensions so they literally rotate with the variations of
the magnetic field created during an MRI while it is safe to have up to a 3.0 Tesla MRI done while
having this 3d magnet inside of your head you may still actually have to have the magnet removed if
you're having imaging done of your head because that magnet can interfere with the imaging now
this might seem like a minor improvement to the high result your implant but it is definitely
worthwhile especially if you're gonna find yourself having an MRI at any point in the future
overall the CI connect and the 3d magnet are nice additions to Advanced Bionics offerings that a lot
of AB users should be excited about that's it for this video if you have any questions leave
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