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05-17-2018, 05:14 PM
This slick looking device is the world's first modular hearing aid
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The world's first modular hearing aid is here, and it could change the game for people with total or partial hearing loss.
Melbourne-based hearing aid designers Blamey Saunders won Australia's prestigious Good Design Award of the Year (https://good-design.org/) and the CSIRO Design Innovation Award for their groundbreaking device, dubbed Facett (https://www.facett.com.au/), at a glitzy ceremony at Sydney Opera House on Thursday.
SEE ALSO: Stream directly from your iPhone to your cochlear implant sound processor with this device and app (https://mashable.com/2017/10/25/cochlear-implant-sound-processor-apple/)
So, what makes this hearing aid different to other models? The device works with a core, linked to an app, and is powered by a rechargeable module, which magnetically clicks into place — for anyone who's tried to change a hearing aid battery in the dark, or had to have someone else change it for them, this is pretty neat. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/17/facett-modular-hearing-aid/)
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The world's first modular hearing aid is here, and it could change the game for people with total or partial hearing loss.
Melbourne-based hearing aid designers Blamey Saunders won Australia's prestigious Good Design Award of the Year (https://good-design.org/) and the CSIRO Design Innovation Award for their groundbreaking device, dubbed Facett (https://www.facett.com.au/), at a glitzy ceremony at Sydney Opera House on Thursday.
SEE ALSO: Stream directly from your iPhone to your cochlear implant sound processor with this device and app (https://mashable.com/2017/10/25/cochlear-implant-sound-processor-apple/)
So, what makes this hearing aid different to other models? The device works with a core, linked to an app, and is powered by a rechargeable module, which magnetically clicks into place — for anyone who's tried to change a hearing aid battery in the dark, or had to have someone else change it for them, this is pretty neat. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/17/facett-modular-hearing-aid/)
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