Maynooth University spin-out Neuromod launches device to provide relief to tinnitus sufferers.

Neuromod, a medtech spin-out of Ireland-based Maynooth University, has launched a product aimed at reducing the impact of tinnitus.

The condition, suffered by 1 in 10 adults, creates a constant noise in the ears, which can vary from buzzing and high pitch ringing to a loud and debilitating whine that circles through multiple frequencies. The device, mutebutton, allows suffers respite by temporarily reducing the noise generated by tinnitus.

Founded in 2010, the Dublin-based company hopes that the launch will help…