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It seems like this could easily be solved by selling the hearing aids with a smartphone app to test your hearing and tune the aids, and a pair of flat frequency
by rhinoceraptor 8y ago
It seems like this could easily be solved by selling the hearing aids with a smartphone app to test your hearing and tune the aids, and a pair of flat frequency response headphones for testing.
- pkaye 8y agoRead about the OTC hearing aid law signed 2 years ago. http://www.hearingreview.com/2017/08/president-trump-signs-otc-hearing-aid-legislation-law/ http://www.hearingreview.com/2017/08/president-trump-signs-o...
- computator 8y agotl;dr: The gist is that, by near year I think, people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss will be able to buy hearing aids without having to see a doctor or get a prescription. (I'm always amazed when the bureaucracy makes something easier rather than more difficult.)
- Scoundreller 8y agoRetirees have lots of time to vote.
- chris1993 8y agoThis is essentially the system sold by Blamey Saunders in Australia. My pair work reasonably well.
- rhinoceraptor 8y agoWow, it's crazy that those are still $3000 for essentially a microphone, DSP chip, maybe a small microcontroller and a BLE chip, and a driver. Something like the Airpods are probably on the same level of technical complexity, but an order of magnitude cheaper.