Webear Aura
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Hear who you choose.
An open-ear band for people with hearing loss in one ear. It brings sound across from your deaf side, lets you pick one voice, and taps the side a sound came from.
With hearing loss in one ear, sound reaches you from one side only.
Sound localization is lost. A voice, a horn or a bike could be coming from anywhere.
Anything said or happening on your deaf side goes unheard.
In a noisy place you can't pick one voice out from the rest.
A thin band rests at the back. Two small pads touch the bone in front of each ear. Nothing goes in your ear canal.
Sound reaches the inner ear through the bone, so traffic, voices and alarms stay audible around you.
The one on your deaf side catches what you can't, and passes it across to your good ear.
A small chip lifts the voice you chose out of the noise. Gentle taps on the matching side show where a sound came from.
Soft silicone that sits behind your ear. Your ear stays open.
Connects over Bluetooth for music, calls and maps. Sound travels through your cheekbones.
Not part of this demoFour people are talking at once. Press play and try to follow Leo. Then switch Aura on and tap the person you want to hear.
Choose which ear can't hear. Then play a sound that happens on that side.
With one working ear, sounds seem to come from everywhere. Play a few and see if you can tell the side. Then switch Aura on.
A few short questions. It takes about a minute.
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