Customize Your Advanced Bionics Sound Processors With Eye-Catching Looks From Skinit

December 2009

Editor: I think it's great to see people calling attention to their hearing aids and cochlear implants, rather than trying to hide them! If you use an Advanced Bionics implant, here's an exciting way to add some eye candy to your device!

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Advanced Bionics(r) (http://www.advancedbionics.com), the only U.S.-based manufacturer of cochlear implants (or "bionic ears"), recently announced that the look of the world's best performing cochlear implant system can now showcase customized designs. AB has partnered with Skinit, the leading company in consumer electronics personalization, to offer custom-made covers for Harmony(r) or Auria(r) sound processors.

"As a company, we focus on offering the most advanced technology and the best possible hearing experience to our recipients," said Jeffrey H. Greiner, CEO of Advanced Bionics. "We're excited to now offer far more customization options than any other cochlear implant manufacturer."

With Skinit designs, recipients can customize their sound processors to match their mood or wardrobe or to simply make a fashion statement. Processors can be dressed with favorite colors, sports teams, motifs, or works of art. From patriotic flags to popular movie characters, from leopard prints to college team logos-and nearly everything in between-the Skinit website offers hundreds of designs to choose from or the option to upload graphics for a completely unique look. The designs are a great new addition to the 20 colorful caps and covers that are already available to choose from AB, making the Harmony System more customizable than any other cochlear implant system.

Harmony features the world's most sophisticated technology to bring clearer, high-resolution sound to the severely-to-profoundly deaf. While most cochlear implants on the market were designed to perform best in quiet, clinic-like conditions, Harmony is designed to help recipients hear well in everyday settings like busy offices, noisy classrooms, and bustling restaurants. The Harmony System is designed to fit a cochlear implant recipient's life and now their style, too.

To purchase Skinits for a sound processor or as a gift for that special AB recipient, visit http://www.advancedbionics.com/skinit.

About Skinit, Inc.

Skinit, Inc. is the industry leader in On-Demand Personalization Technology including the manufacture and distribution of customized products for electronic devices. Skinit's online ordering and customization tools allow consumers to create branded, designed, and personalized electronic device covers, or skins, using high quality 3M products.

For more information, please visit http://www.skinit.com.

About Advanced Bionics

Advanced Bionics is a global leader in developing the most advanced cochlear implant systems in the world. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Valencia, California, AB is the only American company developing cutting-edge cochlear implant technology that restores hearing to the deaf and allows recipients to hear their best today, tomorrow, and always.

AB has the most sophisticated cochlear implant system on the market, the Harmony(r) HiResolution(r) Bionic Ear System, with five times more sound resolution than its competitors, designed to allow recipients to go beyond deciphering speech to hearing music.

With sales in over 30 countries and a proven track record for developing high-performing, state-of-the-art products, AB's talented group of 660 technologists and professionals from all over the world are driven to succeed, work with integrity and stay firmly committed to quality.