Company 106 Audiodent
音を脳に送るために歯と顎骨を使用して口の中に簡単にとまる革新的な新しい補聴器を開発？？
The idea that you can hear sounds from vibrations transmitted through your teeth is nothing new. Long before composer Beethoven held a wooden baton between his teeth and pressed it to his piano to listen to the notes, inventors have been experimenting with a variety of hearing aids devised from wooden boards held to the teeth. Imaginative though these were, up to now, there has never been a practical solution.
Audiodent, a small Israeli start-up based in Omer, near Beersheva, is about to change all that. The company has developed an innovative new hearing aid that clips easily inside the mouth, using the teeth and jawbone to transmit sound to the brain.
In the US alone, 28 million people suffer from some degree of hearing impairment. Of these, however, only six million use hearing aids. That means that 80% of people with a hearing problem do not use any kind of hearing aid, and of those that do, an estimated 40% of them are dissatisfied.
"This shows clearly that people have issues with hearing aids," says Eyal Aharon, the CEO of Audiodent. For a start, he explains, sound quality is poor. "A hearing aid is a very small device that must carry out complex computations. Because of its size, the device is limited in terms of computing resources and memory."
