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This is so cool to see. As a health care worker I see lots of people who simply can not afford heating aids as they run for thousands of dollars and then things
by 14 2y ago
This is so cool to see. As a health care worker I see lots of people who simply can not afford heating aids as they run for thousands of dollars and then things like they hop into a shower and they stop working happen all the time.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that hearing loss is a loss of ability to hear certain frequencies. You can’t simply turn up the volume although that does help to some degree. So what happens is you see a doctor who determines what frequency loss you have and the hearing aid when it picks up that frequency shifts it to another frequency that you can hear. So I do see why up until now ya it was regulated. We don’t want some company selling a device that simply cranks the volume and potentially causes more damage. But with today’s technology we are more then ready for this to be a reality. With an app we can offer hearing tests and determine what areas the client needs improved. This I feel will be a game changer for some.
The only thing I wonder about is how well do air pods hold up to waxy ears? With regular hearing aids they need cleaning and often have things like a wax trap which is a tiny plug that catches wax and can be swapped out easily.
- left-struck 2y agoThis is a minor point but cranking the volume doesn’t necessarily mean hearing loss. You could for example have a device that amplifies external sound so that you your hearing is enhanced over all frequencies but has a max volume that it will not exceed. This compresses the dynamic range and makes the quietest sounds easier to detect. It would reduce your ability to distinguish sounds in a noisy environment though I imagine.