Ear Gear

Ear Gear can put your worries over losing your hearing aids to rest. The corded versions can be clipped to the back of your shirt, meaning your instruments no longer fall off easily and get lost.

Ear Gear is made from a double wall nylon-spandex blend which protects your hearing instruments from dirt and sweat. Hand washable, soft and durable, the protective spandex covers are comfortable to wear, preventing chafing and irritation of the delicate skin behind the ear.

Importantly, Ear Gear has been tested and found to be effectively acoustically transparent; there is virtually no loss of sound quality with Ear Gear. Suitable for everyone and ideal for children, Ear Gear cover the hearing aid and help keep small fingers at bay.

Available in a variety of different fun and attractive colours, and in different sizes to suit different hearing instruments Ear Gear can also transform your hearing aid into a fashion accessory!

 

While Ear Gear provides an effective protection against moisture, it is not 'waterproof' and therefore is not suitable for swimming, showering or heavy sweating.

Suitable for everyone but ideal for children, who are notorious for taking off their hearing instruments or playing with them. Ear Gear was especially designed for children by a frustrated parent whose daughter found her hearing aids uncomfortable to wear and had a habit of hiding them around the house!

Click here is a link to a helpful sizing guide list put together by Ear Gear.

 

Ear Gear comes in a wide variety of colours and collar clips, and in different sizes to suit different BTE hearing instruments:

Original Large- which fits BTEs from 1.25" to 2" approx. (3.2cm - 5cm approx)

Mini Curved - which fits BTEs up to 1.25" approx. (3.2cm)
Micro - which fits BTEs up to 1" approx. (2.5cm)

Cochear- which fits most Advanced Bionics and Cochlear processors from 2" to 3" approx. (5cm - 7.6cm approx)

 

Available in a variety of different fun and attractive colours, Ear Gear can also transform your hearing aid into a fashion accessory!

  

Some interesting facts about Ear Gear:

1. Ear Gear is the only device that can  protect from dirt, sweat, moisture, and loss with a single product
2. Ear Gear is great for 20% of a hearing professionals' clients and 30% could use it in specific applications - such as while exercising, or on the job
3. Ear Gear is an adult product - over 60% of sales are to adults, 19 years of age and over

We've shown all Ear Gear models in Royal Blue to aid shape and size comparison. However Ear Gear is currently available in 8 colours: Beige (BE), Camouflage (CA), Chocolate Brown (CB), Grey (GY), Orange/Red (OR), Lipstick Pink (PI), Royal Blue (RB) and Black (BK).

The colours that we stock for the various models are shown in the product options for that model, the more popular the model the more colours we stock!

Please also note that, for hygiene reasons, Ear Gear cannot be returned for credit. 

The graph below is the result of an electroacoustical analysis test performed by Oticon. The green line shows the sound coming into a hearing aid without Ear Gear and the pink line shows the sound quality with Ear Gear. The results of this audioscan test indicate that there is no more than a 1dB reduction with Ear Gear; essentially it is acoustically transparent.