Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Solar powered inexpensive hearing aids


* Howard Weinstein, a Canadian who "parlayed valves and faucets into a major business, then sold it for a bundle to a Fortune 500 corporation, staying on as president" has worked in Africa to come up with an inexpensive ("$100"), solar-powered hearing aids.
* Weinstein has actually used hearing-impaired people to realise this vision. "Because mastering sign language takes acute hand-eye coordination, deaf people are well suited to the fine soldering and microelectronics that go into making hearing aids."
* And to top it all? "He didn't know the first thing about audiology. 'I didn't know a decibel from Tinkerbell.' Even so, he didn't need a degree in physiology to understand the scope of the problem."

Read at Newsweek: Something to Shout About

1 comment:

hearing aid products boston ma said...

This is something so nice if made! Batteries consume a lot of our budget. Nice alternative.