The Thai Health Promotion Foundation and Bangkok Deaf Association conducted a study, which found that 100% of hearing impaired people take their hearing aids off to sleep. Thus they are cut off from the world and at the slightest problem they can find themselves in danger. This is why the company BBDO Bangkok has embarked on the creation of an object, which could alert the hearing impaired at night, without being unpleasant to wear. The device is called Hearing Rescue, it is a prosthesis that amplifies sounds. But she can also wear a bracelet to detect sounds synonymous with danger and transform them into vibrations. Not bad!
Turning off your hearing aid at night can be very dangerous for people with hearing loss. You may not hear a siren or a fire alarm, for example. In France, there were, according to Unsaf (national union of audioprosthetists), nearly 5.5 million hearing impaired in 2014. Between 2.5 and 3 million people require equipment in order to live in complete safety, according to the inspection of social affairs. This is why this small object could meet with great success. However, you will have to spend the sum of 178 € to get it. Remains to be seen if the device will be supported by Social Security?
