Oticon Announces Oticon Intent™, the World’s First Hearing Aid with User-Intent Sensors

[Volusiano]

@Volusiano

A 13 version would make sense because I wonder how much more battery juice something like an accelerometer would suck up.

It would also be interesting to see if the Philips 9050 (which has been confirmed to have the accelerometer technology as well) will only have a battery size 13 version eventually as well.

@Gazza5982

@Um_bongo

Not really. Conventional micro accelerometers are piezo-ceramic and make volts when you bounce them.

No, modern micro accelerometers are all Silicon MEMS based. A 3D capacitive sensing structure that is co-packaged with a sophisticated controller die. So they do consume power, but they are very efficient drawing only µA of current at 1-3V.

I learned something new about micro accelerometers from the other Oticon Intent thread today. Thought I’d copy and share here. Perhaps they’re not the new energy hog I thought they might be.