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- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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- aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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It’s unclear to me how often they need to hook up this elaborate setup. Is it a one-time thing that once set up it’s done? Can their grandmother walk out of range of the iPad and allow it to disconnect? What is the quality difference between typical hearing aids and this airpod capability?
If this isn’t cyberpunk dystopia I don’t know what is. I’ll crosspost to !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world.
It’s crazy how expensive hearing aids are considering they are just fancy in-ear headphones. They are literally like 10x the price of the most high end headphones.
Capitalism along with ableism.
They see a desperate need, and they price their products accordingly. Accessibility aids, and healthcare in general, are obscenely overpriced, when they shouldn’t even be priced at all.
I have a set of Siemens ones that were like 4k
You do get custom made inserts specifically for your ears, extremely precise tuning to adjust your hearing loss, they’re way less visible than earbuds, the batteries last 15 hours, wireless charging, free retuning and adjustments for life and free cleaning for life
Plus, just using earbuds to increase the volume will damage your hearing further, a good audiologist will have studied for years to improve your hearing without damage
Wouldn’t say it’s the best 4k I’ve spent but it’s fucking life changing
My grandfather is really not subtle when he wants me to get him something. He recently wanted hearing aids because the ones he has now with the over-the-ear wires were cutting into his ears. I would’ve loved to get him some high-end ones, but I’m not THAT well off. I ended up getting him some ~$100 ones. I couldn’t imagine $4k.
My dad recently got hearing aids. The technology has come a long way. His are bluetooth and pair with his phone.
Back in the day of you wanted to ignore someone you’d just turn off your hearing aids. He uses his to listen to music now.
I’m sure there might be some practical difference between hearing aids and airbuds, but it does seem like there’s a lot of overlap
They could just have used anything else… or is there no alternative?
They wanted to use the hearing aids feature that Apple recently released but it is not available in India. They found a way to get around the geo restrictions and enable it.
Rithwik Jayasimha immediately went out with his dad to buy a pair for his grandma. “We came back home, we took them out of the case, and I was looking for the feature and it was just missing,”
I believe AirPods are the only earphones with a hearing aid feature so far, and because of how expensive hearing aids are, they are probably the cheapest.
