Thats right. 1 in 3 US adults already suffer from some form of hearing loss.
I am one of them. Mine has gotten worse over time and escalated quite a bit when I was hit by a roadside bomb blast in Iraq.
I have been diagnosed with high frequency hearing loss and now wear hearing aids. They are weird to get used to, but certainly help. We have an alarm at my office that I never heard until I first used my hearing aids. Some oven alarms and microwave alarms I never heard before, raised some serious safety issues. Then in my workplace the difficulty would come if I was at a mixer or networking event with loud music or a bar. Sometimes it was tremendously difficult to carry on a conversation.
The point of this post is to show the significant opportunity entrepreneurs have to help this large group of people. Sure, there are hearing aids and some surgical solutions available, but what about a high frequency setting or a programmed low frequency setting in car stereos or televisions. Even computers could have small softwares developed to aid the hearing impaired. I am sure there are smarter people who could think of more.
Lend us a hand ear!
