The IP68 rating is pretty good.
Our aids are IP68 rated and I wouldn’t want to submerge them in water.
I wonder if the Kanso would fit in a typical hearing aid dryer?
From the looks of it that is the FCC approval, which means that all of the wireless components meet appropriate standards. This is a necessary step but it won’t be approved for use until the FDA gives approval.
So I dug up Cochlear’s half year report for investors that came out in February and there is no mention of a launch for a Kenso update in there. A lot of talk about Osia 2, which is an alternative bone conducting system to the Baha but nothing on a new CI processor, which means they probably don’t expect to roll it out until at least the end of the year.
On a facebook group im part of someone has the Cochlear PDF of the Kanso 2 with pictures. From the pictures the Kanso 2 seems thicker than the original Kanso but you cannot completely tell. If it is thicker im sure that is so they can use a stronger magnet to fix the issues myself and others with the new profile plus implant were having - we couldnt use the original kanso because the magnet was not strong enough.
Someone had posted the photos over on r/cochlearimplants on Reddit a couple weeks back; I was going to link their photos but it looks like they were forced to remove them just as I guessed they might. Oh well…They had measurements on them which would’ve helped answer your question @Lou82
I’m hoping to get my 622 implant on 7/23, providing things don’t go back into a shutdown state again. I’m in Illinois and originally to have my surgery on 3/12 (postponed due to high blood sugar due to diabetes), then 5/22 cancelled to COVID.
I’m getting a Nucleus 7. Now they are releasing this update to their Kanso and Nucleus products wonder where this leaves me? This update will involve new hardware and won’t just be a software update.
The Nucleus 8 might come in 2021, that is based on the 5, 6, and 7 each being 4 years apart, or it might not for any number of reasons.
Based on past performance when it does come out it will be compatible with any of the current implants. One of the other things that was in the initial article is that Cochlear got FDA approval to match the Nucleus 7 to their first commercial implant, so it is now fully backward compatible.
Maybe I misunderstood the article I thought it had said the Nucleus 7 was being updated.
Isn’t the 622 the new implant array that was released in mid 2019 or is there something newer than that? I thought that was the Profile Plus. It’s supposed to be the implant you can have an MRI with.
The only change to the Nucleus 7 is approval to use it with the old 22 implant. That probably needs some different software or firmware, but unless you were implanted in the 80s it doesn’t matter. Nothing in the article indicates any change to the hardware in the N7.
And yes the 622 is the most recent implant version.
From a quick read, it looks to have most of the features of the Nucleus 7 with a built in rechargable battery.
For those that are about to have surgery there appears to be an exchange program for anyone who is implanted between FDA approval and actual availability.
This chart shows the Kanso 2 needs the phone clip for smart phones. I sure missed that earlier, thought the Kanso 2 was connecting to smart phones like the Phonak Marvel aids.