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DIY Hearing Aid Costs $1 to Build, Ready in 25 Minutes – Interesting Engineering
New low-cost hearing aid only costs $1 and takes under 30 minutes to build. Read more to see how!
Over 200 million people over the age of 65 around the world struggle to hear well but can’t afford the expensive hearing aids available.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have taken the matter into their own hands and have developed a hearing aid device that costs as low as $1 and is open-sourced for anyone to build themselves.
The device, known as LoCHAid, is easily manufactured and can be repaired quickly.
The project’s details were published in the journa…
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