Doppler Labs just raised $17 million to produce a wearable bionic hearing device. Here Active Listening is being dubbed the first true “hearable tech.” These are not earbuds for listening to music, but rather a kind of bionic hearing device for engaging with real world sounds around you. By using two ear buds with microphones and internal processing, an individual user can curate his/her own listening experience in various acoustic environments (with the aid of a smartphone app). Noisy environment, bad mix at a live concert- any situation where you are engaging with real-world sounds.
Here, Hans Zimmer (film composer) discusses the future of sound and how wearables may change our perception of sounds around us:
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