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...
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