Hearing aids are already very smart. I got a cochlear implant a year ago, and it's fantastic. I've had moderate to severe hearing loss since birth. I wore heari

Hearing aids are already very smart. I got a cochlear implant a year ago, and it's fantastic. I've had moderate to severe hearing loss since birth. I wore hearing aids for the past 25 years with loads of different models, even brands so I know from experience. I got the Med-El Opus 2 and RONDO as the processor for my implant: http://www.medel.com/rondo/ http://www.medel.com/rondo/ Hearing aids are again, very smart -- they do things like increasing volume to hear voices (coded to whatever your hearing loss is) when you're somewhere noisy (next to a busy road, a pub and so on). They usually 'communicate' together, changing volume automatically as an example and very rarely need any tinkering: just turn them on to hear. Hearing aids and Cochlear Implants are some very fascinating tech, and very well made.