Many people with hearing impairments hearing aids. Hearing aids work by amplifying sound and reducing background noise. Now hearing aids can do a lot more than helping people hear. Starkey Hearing Technologies is a company that developed Livio AI: a hearing aid with integrated sensors and AI. Used with an app, the device is able to stream music, answer questions like an AI assistant, transcribe and translate conversations. In addition, for those who care about their health and wellbeing, it can be used to track physical activities and the frequency of conversations. It can even detect falls and alert others: this is really useful for elderly isolated users. Because of its various features and usages, the device can be used for people with no hearing loss.
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Mentioned: among the best inventions of the year by Time
Summary
Purpose
To make a wearable medical device more useful
Idea
Connect to a mobile phone, the Internet and AI
Further Possibilities
1. Make glasses that can translate
2. Connect isolated lonely people through hearing aids and apps
3. Streaming books in hearing aids
4. Design hearing aids to assemble jewelry
5. Make headphones with AI
Questions
1. What might be all the medical devices that can be turned into wearables?
2. How might we improve all our senses?
3. What might be all the ways to enhance the human body with AI?
