A group of MIT scientists has developed a software that can be installed on all modern mobile phones and help the people with hearing loss in communication by converting of noise to special vibration, which an ear could understand.
The technology is not new. Modern medicine allows even implants with the same functionality. However, since these implants are very expensive and a normal people can’t buy it. Precisely for this reason, the scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed an inexpensive technology with same functionality.
Nowadays almost everyone is able to buy a mobile phone, so the accessibility of the MIT-developed technology is very good.
With this technique, the deaf also is able to understand if someone start a talk to him. With lip-reading technology he was not able to do this. I hope that this software will be distributed for free for deaf people, or at least it should cost not very much. If I were able to develop such a thing, I would not ask for money from people who must live with such problems.
