[krson]

  It looks like a game changer, although I'm guessing the technology will take a while to mainstream to the bulk of audiologists that many of us rely upon for impressions.  I suppose their first big push will be towards the hearing aid industry, which will entice more audiologists to make the investment (whatever that may be).  If the scanners are that easy to use, I guess some headphone stores will invest in them, but there really aren't that many brick and mortar stores available to most of us.  It will be interesting to see future developments!

Check out earscanning.com - looks like there is already a plan to use it with hearing aids

 

[VL]

United Sciences holds numerous patents for their scanning technology, the technology is adopted by GN ReSound in Europe under the trade mark Otoscan.

 

[Hellkitchen]

Great news, I'm expecting to see this in my country around 2020 ................. maybe I'm too optimistic

 

[NightFlight]

  Thanks for the thorough preview of the HE1000.
 
Personally I'm excited about your 2nd article, most likely about UnitedSciences and their full ear mobile 3D scanner. Their implementation seems to be very complicated and prone to problems, on the other hand LantosTechnologies is basically making an earmold while automatically scanning it in your ear. The later is a much simpler and robust solution however it's still nearly as invasive as normal ear molds.
 
Another thing to add, this will only have broadband success if audiologists can see an advantage over  the traditional method: regular silicon ear impression > sent to lab > 3D scan at lab
The quality requirements for hearing aid earmolds are much lower than for CIEMs.

 
If it pans out, what's not to like? Skipping the post office is a huge advantage. A pain I guess they have rightly noticed as of late.

 

[just-a-test]

  If it pans out, what's not to like? Skipping the post office is a huge advantage. A pain I guess they have rightly noticed as of late.

Those that have to adopt it mainly work in the hearing aid industry and for them to adopt mobile 3d scanning it has to be more price competitive than the regular method.

 

[gmatthews7919]

Seriously cool - digital impressions. It would be fun to eventually be able to 3D print your own. If it removes the intrusive feeling of foams then cool but I can't help wonder if the physical mold wouldn't be more accurate still?

 

[Happy Camper]

Progress. Great post boss.

 

[Pirakaphile]

I hope I'll be able to attend one of these someday, sounds like a lot of fun, and a great way to get to hear some over-the-top audio gear.

 

[knowhatimean]

I don't know, but that picture tends to remind of when that guy in "Starship Troopers" had his brain sucked right out of his head !
 
(Having watched too many SFflicks makes me very wary of things that appear to be generating a "Blu Ray" of some type !; Never bendover to look at your Bluray player if a disc gets stuck... Get one of your kids to look, their brains aren't that big yet so the Ray may have to search harder to find it) (Just kidding; get one of the neighbor's kids to do it )

 

[phantomore]

Thisis sick, no erros in the process of getting an impression and have to do the painstacking rpocessall over again

 

[phantomore]

I really want this in my local udiologst sicne ilve in shanghai, you never know that kind of material te are using... Thsi seems clean and easy, lesspainful, fater, etc.

 

[decade127000]

Looking forward HE1000

 

[agoffe]

I hear the HE-1000 are going to be very expensive. Some estimate Stax range. I hope not.

 

[quantx]

Thank you,
Very interesting.
An idea of price range ?

 

[alynx]

Love the HE 1000 vintage design - so anachronistic, yet so modern, wild and brave. ^^