HOH/Deaf
Hearing Aid “Plug” Design
Ran across this concept for a hearing aid “plug”. This is very interesting, it’s too bad it doesn’t exist.. yet. Might see me with a plug someday after all. It’s nice to see the concept of hearing aids being ‘stretched’. Learn more about the design concept at designaffairs STUDIO.
YouTube enables Captions!
Youtube recently announced automatic captions for YouTube videos. While the technology is imperfect, the system will analyze videos and make best guesses about the script. This is beneficial to Google of course, in analyzing the videos to deliver better ads, and eventually, translate videos into a multitude of languages. The core benefit to me is [...]
SkinIt for Hearing Aids
A company I used to actually get a custom cellphone skin is now offering “skins” for cochlear implants. Colored hearing aids have been available for a long time. While the trend is to try to hide hearing aids, I can see why people would want these (although the pictures leopard print design? garish!) If you [...]
Glove-based sign language vocalization
Abdelkareem Bedri “Speaking Gloves: Arabic Deaf Sign Language” Sudan Age 22 ‘Helping the deaf be heard’ is Abdelkareem’s way of making a difference in people’s lives. Through the development of a microcontroller based system to translate Arabic sign language to an audible voice, this project will help the hearing impaired be more productive in the [...]
dead HAs
Is in real trouble now – my hearing aids are all dead, just yell at me…
