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This is not a $1 hearing aid and never will be. The material cost of almost any device is insignificant compared to the overall cost of manufacturing, testing,

This is not a $1 hearing aid and never will be. The material cost of almost any device is insignificant compared to the overall cost of manufacturing, testing, and distributing it. The barrier to low-cost hearing aids in most countries is medical regulation and liability coverage, not expensive parts. Maybe India's regulations are lax enough that someone could bulk-manufacture cheap, poorly-tested medical devices to get the price down to a few dollars, but there's no technological breakthrough in this "new device" that would enable that; if there were a viable market, it would already be manufactured. There's no profit to be made, so why would anyone bother?

markc 6y ago
>There's no profit to be made, so why would anyone bother? Really dude?
jiofih 6y ago
> if there were a viable market, it would already be manufactured Yup. https://m.aliexpress.com/wholesale/hearing+aid.html?channel=direct&keywords=hearing+aid https://m.aliexpress.com/wholesale/hearing+aid.html?channel=...
paulcarroty 6y ago
> if there were a viable market, it would already be manufactured. There's no profit to be made, so why would anyone bother? Big market, not super-complex tech, it's only matter of time when cheap solution comes.