Turn your cell phone into hearing aid CHEARS ONE bluetooth earphone rolls out
Some 4 years ago I met the Inventor of the smart hearing aid app — Chears, I was astonished by the product sense of this person , he can creatively turn a very traditional product into a mobile app, basically mean using mobile app to imitate hearing aids functions. I was quite impressed by the founder.
For those who are not familiar with Chears, i shall talk about how it works in a simple way:
Chears discovered that middle or low priced hearing aids amplify both speech and noise at the same time, so most of the time it happens to be very noisy and uncomfortable to put on those hearing aids. Some of the hearing impaired even give up normal interpersonal communication due to the discomfort. Chears jumped in to solve the problem by using its patented algorithm processed on mobile phone to suppress noise and enhance speech. Thus hearing impaired and those young old who are suffering from hearing loss could enjoy hearing improvement through the app and the correct earphone. There were, however, two reasons why Chears plan didn’t go well as expected:
- The minimal viable product ( earliest version) can only work with wired earphone but no users wish to talk to others as if they are listening to songs, it just looked weird and not respecting others. Ordinary bluetooth earphone, on the other hand, brings latency problem which makes the product more unreasonable to be used as hearing assistant.
- if Chears produces low latency bluetooth earphone ourselves, it needs to satisfy minimum order quantity requirement
Back in 2017, although the product demo and the concepts earned reputations from HKICT Award- Silver and even brought Chears to TVB (HK biggest TV channel) interview, Chears team was suffering from “starvation” as the product was having no revenue stream. At the time I coincidentally met the team again and we re-formed the team by taking outside software projects and continue developing Chears simultaneously. Fortunately, with the support from some public fundings source, we kept on finding factories to develop the eaprhone, revamping the mobile app and eventually decided to push the product to kickstart for pre-sale as we believe it has already reached a usable level.
Chears ONE will be on Kickstarter pre-sale on 21st Jan 2019 (Hong Kong Time, GMT +8) 10:00 am.
Pre-sale price: ~$165 (Chears ONE wireless bluetooth earphone package with one year Chears app license) ; early bird price ~$125
Expected delivery date: June 2019
Chears visions to empower the hearing impaired of the world to obtain high quality hearing assistant with low price, liberalise them from social labelling discomfort by just wearing bluetooth earphone instead of hearing aids. If you are also sharing the values of Chears, pls
- share the below pre-sale link to related people, or people who cares about hearing impaired.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/919630958/1783649351?ref=637848&token=e2aa9f88 or - Pre-order Chears One and give it to any hearing impaired or those who might suffer from hearing loss as their age grow. or
- share this article to more people to maximise our reach
