Hearing Aids as Phones, For Everyone

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Phones are continually getting smaller—the paper-clip sized phone that Derek uses in Zoolander was more than a joke, it was prescient.
But phone size and design are finally hitting a wall—the technology required simply can’t get much smaller. (Well, at least until the quantum computer becomes a common reality.) However, Apple is forging a way to make the “hearing" part of a phone nearly invisible. How? By linking up with hearing aids.
Apple developed the Bluetooth protocol for hearing aids last year and this allows streaming audio and data delivered to the hearing aid. Here is the initial benefit for those already using hearing aids: ReSound and Starkey—makers of hearing aids—are using the iPhone as a platform that allows users to have some kind of an interface for the protheses.
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