Innovations that don't exist yet, your ideas for hearing aids

I hope for an innovation wherein the government and the politicians running it becomes as proficient at providing for those in need as they are at wasting our tax dollars on an ever-growing list of stupid stuff. There’s no acceptable reason, in my opinion, why lawful residents of this country who can’t hear on their own - should be denied access to whatever level of technology is necessary to be able to hear and participate fully in life.

Sonova to create their own AI enabled voice assistant, the Hearing Aid Link 9000. What could go wrong with that…?

check Etsy - when I was looking for N95 mask holders, I noticed some HA earring jewelry - sorta Punkish & Fun.

I’m with you. My last hearing aids (Siemens, before they became Signia) were fire-engine red, and the ones before that (Starkey) were bright purple. I’ve been really disappointed with the beige, grey, blah choices this time around.

Aaaaargh, I wish this had been a couple of months earlier. I am not going to need new hearing aids for at least 4 years. Thanks for the info user 666.

Full d-i-y adjustment app: Music-friendly EQ down to 30 Hz, choice of multiband or simple dynamic control, overall comfort limiter, ‘speech’ option that’s selectable on the aid.

Why couldn’t they make a program that would let you set one aid on the table or what ever. It could send the sound to the other aid. They already talk to each other. Of coarse then they couldn’t sell us accessories like pens, tv connectors and the like.

Curious, that vulnerability to water. My Phonaks of very long ago, some 15 years, survived a couple of minutes in warm salty sea until loud gurglings alerted me! Rushed to beach, removed batteries, sluiced away the brine with Perrier water. Let them dry. They recovered - still working.

@cvkemp said:

How about aids that can be adjusted so well to my loss needs and can know my requirements to hear to the point I can put them in my ears and go about my day like I have normal hearing. So I don’t have to stop an even think about the fact I am wearing them.

For me, this really would be the ultimate! It can be great having all these features and apps and whatnot, but at the end of the day I just want devices that work seamlessly that help me to hear as best as I possibly can without having to muck around with making adjustments on an app or the device itself, and therefore not have to think about my devices and whether they’re set right for a particular situation.

Absolutely that is what AI should do, it should make the adjustments without human interaction.

@ronshere said:

Being able to have it beep would help you find it easily in tall grass or whatever.

And I wouldn’t be able to hear the beep. I would prefer a dial on a phone with an arm that pointed to the aids. I think that’s technically feasible now.

Streaming some Led Zepellin to your aids approximates your solution.

Well I would hear it and even if I couldn’t I would have my wife go with me to find it. Hearing aids are expensive and important enough that I would make certain to have help. Based on testing the location feature on the Oticon app a beep would be necessary to go those last few feet to locate it. Phones aren’t precise enough.

Wife + Led Zeppelin helped me find them last time. Sure, “play sound through aids” would be useful and trivial to implement in a hearing aid app, but an arrow that points to their exact location would be much nicer. Shoot for the stars I say.

I’ve jumped in a shower for just a minute or two on a few occasions - even dating back to my Marvel battery aids. It was just a 20-min swim in a pool that killed my Lumity Life aids. I’m guessing the weakest link was the receiver/speaker, which is not hermetically sealed.

However!!! I just read (in a different thread) about the Starkey Genesis aids2 that claim to be WATERPROOF.

ANYONE HERE try these out in a pool, the ocean, lake, etc?