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It's depressing to think of the different ways people are treated like livestock on a factory farm.
It's depressing to think of the different ways livestock are treated like livestock on a factory farm, too. Factory farms are hell on earth.
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They are not anywhere at that price. The ones europeans tend to get go for $1,806 retail I checked. I've noticed Americans like to bs their medical costs as bad as the system is, you can't compare some newest luxury devices to what an average person is using all around the world.
In fairness to op, the out of date pricing may not be that out of date. recent legislation in the US was meant to bring down hearing aid cost and to break the monopoly on devices. It’s seemingly worked so well that TV commercials for individual brands have started to show up for low cost aids (sub-$5k)
One thing that the HN crowd should appreciate is just how expensive and shit hearing aids are. go and look the up the price, they are deeply expensive, even for basic "make it louder" type aids. Worse still, because they interfere with your ear, you tend to loose the ability to "steer" your hearing. This means that you can't tune out other conversations/noises or stuff. The one good side effect of facebook spending b…
I don’t have hearing aids, but I do suffer from hearing loss. That being said, the Apple Airpods do a wonderful job of helping with that in the adaptive or transparency modes. Apple was working taking the platform even further at one point and I would not be surprised if we see some new announcements eventually. Imagine if a $200 set of airpod pros outperformed top hearing aids.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-hearing-study-s...
If the size could shrink to the size of a small earplug, I'd love to use this as a person who is not hearing-impaired (at least they couldn't diagnose me with it, so now I'm not sure if their diagnostics sucks, or I'm just a normal person and others pretend better that they hear everything well) . In groups and with friends, it's inevitable that you end up in a busy restaurant or a bar, and it always frustrates me th…
That's so you can lean in and get a little bit more friendly. Or go out for some fresh air together.
One thing that the HN crowd should appreciate is just how expensive and shit hearing aids are. go and look the up the price, they are deeply expensive, even for basic "make it louder" type aids. Worse still, because they interfere with your ear, you tend to loose the ability to "steer" your hearing. This means that you can't tune out other conversations/noises or stuff. The one good side effect of facebook spending b…
Instead of fancy shmancy AI, could a pupil tracker on eyeglasses be used to estimate where a person wants to hear and use phasing to amplify the signal from there? You have two microphones already, spaced about 30 cm apart...
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I live in the US. I noticed that someone else posted a comment, saying that Americans exaggerate medical costs. We don't. Our doctors drive Bentleys. I'm really glad that they have broken the monopoly. Maybe some politicians retrieved their souls. It's absolutely insane how expensive healthcare is in the US. But THANK GOD we don't have socialism! /s
> I noticed that someone else posted a comment, saying that Americans exaggerate medical costs. In this case, I agree that your earlier post exaggerates the cost of hearing aids in the US. For example, [1] quotes a top price of $3500/ear. That makes $7000 total. A page full of search results [2] will tell you that prices are in ranges like $1-6k each. Even the hearing aid producers are quoting those prices. [3] [1] h…
It's not worth arguing about. This is not an area I'm anywhere near expert in, as I suspect, many other commenters are.
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What kind of hearing aids cost $50k?
I suspect many of them. I was shocked, when I found out. Of course, you aren’t just paying for the hardware. You are also paying for all the medical stuff surrounding the kit. You can understand why vested interests fought so hard to prevent making hearing aids OTC. Like I said, I suspect that gravy train may have derailed.
Having worn hearing aids for 3 decades (in the US), and not going cheap, the high end name-brand ones have always been about 4-6k for a pair. (and most of the time growing up, health insurance didn't cover it)
From everything I've ever seen or in any conversation online, 50k is either a misremembered or made up number for BTE or in-the-canal hearing aids.
If the size could shrink to the size of a small earplug, I'd love to use this as a person who is not hearing-impaired (at least they couldn't diagnose me with it, so now I'm not sure if their diagnostics sucks, or I'm just a normal person and others pretend better that they hear everything well) . In groups and with friends, it's inevitable that you end up in a busy restaurant or a bar, and it always frustrates me th…