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Related point: There is a multi billion dollar market to someone who can make a 2 part aid which is almost invisible.

Something like a smartphone handling the initial processing and then transmitting via a small earpiece inside the ear with some innovative design for making it discreet.

Hearing aids really are a racket for most part.

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There's plenty of hearing aid apps on iOS and Android. They haven't really taken off because of the delay introduced by the mobile OS and the wireless transmission (> 10ms) causing you to hear an annoying echo effect.

In my experience the delay was not the issue, adoption and use of the technology was, both by the user and the practitioner.

On the flip side to that, with {earbuds} becoming nearly ubiquitous (Samsung Buds, etc), wearing an actual hearing aid hardly makes you stand out anymore.

Definitely an interesting change. As new fashion normalizes wearables the stigma some people perceive will reduce hopefully increasing use

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