Dave - I would be interested in hearing your experiences, especially if your need/use is "in the margins" (but threatening to grow).
I think we will become the first generation of consumer-cyborgs... When my reading vision started failing a few years ago, I didn't (still don't) have the habit/discipline of keeping a (clean, unscratched, unbroken) pair of reading glasses handy, but *always* had my smart-phone handy and realized that not only could I take a picture of the poor-contrast-under-low-light menu I was trying to read, but I could just use the zoom function and hold it over the menu like a handheld magnifier. I haven't had significant hearing challenges (yet) but am feeling it coming on, with lots of foreboding from various friends of mine (some younger) struggling (mildly) with notches in their spectrum that make my (low) voice difficult to hear/understand (or maybe I'm just mumbling more). It has seemed to me that standard hardware (phone microphone/headphones) might well provide good hearing-boost with nothing more than a clever app to do a combination of amplification, equalization and even some frequency sqew? This Bose system looks like it is trying to provide near-identical functionality to prescription/custom hearing aids. My mom (@90) finally gave over to (very expensive) hearing aids a couple of years ago and she can hardly/barely use them. I think most of her problem is that she can't get comfortable/familiar with them, and despite lots of "automatic" adjustment, she is probably not getting them set right under a wide range of circumstances. If she had a lower cost to entry and stigma a decade ago, she might be using them effectively today. I suspect that some (many) of us would develop a relationship with our wireless headphones that transcends just making phone calls and listening to our beats to drown out the chatter around us. Do we know of any apps trying to achieve (some of) this? The two big things i sense that *real* hearing aids offer that an ad-hoc system like I'm suggesting win big with would include microphones *in* the earpieces, emulating the binaural/HRTF qualities of "normal" hearing, and blocking out *natural* sound so that there isn't a dual-signal coming in (is there a detectable delay in the electronic route?). - Steve > Nick, > > The Bose Hearphone is the product I showed you at the coffee shop on > a visit a few months ago. I have one and use it regularly with mixed > results. If anyone is interested, I can provide details of my experience. > > davew > > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019, at 10:32 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: >> >> Dear Friammers, >> >> >> >> One of the things we have talked about for years is the possibility >> of smartphone/hearing aid integration. This looks like a beginning. >> >> >> >> https://www.hearingtracker.com/news/first-look-at-the-bose-hearing-aid?utm_source=Hearing+Tracker+Updates&utm_campaign=5ff252547f-cvsupdate_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_790a5b8263-5ff252547f-455404113 >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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