The Future Of Hearing: How Technology Might Turn Us Into Superheroes
The objective of medical tools for personal use started to go beyond
measuring health parameters and vital signs, offering accurate, as well as easy
and patient-friendly measurements. Lately, they are also coupled with aesthetic
appearance. Elements of design thinking and UX become an ever more organic
part of product development – and that’s also visible when looking at hearables.
The
trend also allows getting rid of societal stigmas bound with medical devices.
Millions of people don’t
want to wear hearing aids because it’s connected to aging and is perceived as
being more dependent while signaling that the body is letting one down.
However, it is totally different if someone is wearing a non-detectable,
jewelry-like, beautiful piece of object. It gives you the confidence of hearing
normally and being fashionable. For example, Julia Marian Cunha created
a hearing aid, OH, that is both a fashion
accessory – making the wearer confident and stylish at the same time. And look
at the Australian
team, which unveiled Facett, a unique, patient-friendly and low-cost hearing
aid inspired by crystals last year!
Botswana-based Deaftronics attempts to tackle another aspect of how to make technology more accessible to people. It has manufactured the first solar-powered hearing aid unit, Solar Ear, in a country where there are only 12 audiologists and five audiology centers for a population of over two million. Each Solar Ear unit includes a digital hearing aid, a solar ba...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine app artificial artificial intelligence ear hearing hearing aid hearing technology medical specialty otoscope smartphone superhero Source Type: blogs
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