What color did you choose and why?

Since I can’t see them I don’t care.
With my face no color is going to help

let me know if you find some that fit well. I went with silver because (no offense to anyone here) the tan/“nude” colors looks too medical-y to me and I wanted something that looked clean and modern. I would have gone with a bright blue if they had it… or maybe a Eddie Van Halen special edition red/black/white!

I went with Oticon’s Chestnut Brown because the plastic looks like polished rosewood once it gets a bit of ear flap grease into it.

I am generally conservative with my color choices, though, with my first HAs, I was hoping for a more out-there color. A blue would have been incredible. Though since I went with KS10s, I chose silver after narrowing between silver and black. At times I wish I would have gone with black, but as others have stated, the silver stands out if you sit them down or they fall out of your ears when taking off a mask.

@sholk

This is nice!

What kind of hearing device is this as I don’t recognise it?

Nice pocket watch! Quartz movement?

[… just funnin’! I know it’s a cocqular receiver of some kind, right? 🥸]

@SpudGunner

Think it’s a osia implant for middle ear deafness.

There are less invasive bone conduction hearing aids - but they don’t do what a CI does. They help with middle ear issues (like a BAHA). I have tried nonsurgical Adhear and SoundArc and Ponto on a hardband while waiting for this Osia implant.

Yes, you win the prize.

I have holes in my semicircular canals that allow the sound to ‘escape’ before hitting the cochlea. Osia are also used for Single Sided Deafness.

@sholk: If those things become common and Silicone Valley catches on, Apple will put out an all-in-one “iBorg” unit with cameras, phone, GPS, maps, radar - you name it. You will look so Koo-well!

@WhiteHat: That mental process/image is exactly what prompted my post!

Silver for my Marvel’s because my wife said that it matches my hair color.

I chose graphite Grey for my paradise, just so they would be different.

@sholk said:

while waiting for this Osia implant.

So PLEASE pardon my ignorance: is this Osia implant a full-blown cocqular implant or something different. I’ve seen the images, and the thing looks different from the other makes, somehow (but this could just be evidence of my lack of familiarity).

@SpudGunner said:

is this Osia implant a full-blown cocqular implant

No. A CI is for inner ear deafness. A Osia Implant is for middle ear deafness, altho I believe can also cope with a small amount of inner ear deafness as well.