People with #electronic and #programming experience… a friend (professional musician) and I were chatting and we had an idea for affordable good hearing aids (we both have hearing loss): in-ears are relatively waterproof. They have to work with sweat dripping, being in the rain, etc. things that you are not supposed to have hearing aids near. They are also much cheaper than hearing aids. Yet, essentially, in many ways “the same” - you set what you want to hear live fed to you and mix it how you want. Hearing aids you just want to hear everything and can tune down background noise and increase certain ranges of sound to mix so you hear it right.
It seems like in-ears should be able to - in theory - function as a much more world-proof hearing aid. That would put the individual in control.
Is this possible to become a thing? Fediverse seems to be a place to have the right overlap of #foss and #tech folk for someone to have a go at this…?
