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The modern world is funny. I have a hearing impairment, tinnitus, and use both AirPods and less visible hearing aids to hear people better. I only wear the AirP
by mcculley 3mo ago
The modern world is funny. I have a hearing impairment, tinnitus, and use both AirPods and less visible hearing aids to hear people better. I only wear the AirPods around people who know me well enough to know that I am wearing them so that I can better hear them. I don’t want strangers to think I don’t want to hear them or that I am being rude. When I am out among strangers, I wear the less visible hearing aids.
But a funny consequence is that because my modern, less visible, hearing aids are connected to my phone, I am often listening to podcasts or news and nobody can tell. So sometimes a stranger will say something and I have to pause the audio and ask them to repeat themselves.
I am wondering what social norms will be like once everyone has less visible electronics in their ears.
- russdill 3mo agoWouldn't it be cool if this situation could be detected and when you hit pause it would actually repeat them for you?
- SenHeng 3mo agoSo you want your magical EarPods to be always listening and recording everything from the past, say 5 seconds?
- russdill 3mo agoIt would probably be the phone, but yes
- rogerrogerr 3mo agoAlready is, in some sense, for 'hey siri'.
- dredmorbius 3mo agoA brief ring buffer is a fairly privacy-respecting implementation, as opposed to long-term capture and storage. Demonstrating that such a capability is in fact a brief ring buffer to the average Joe or Josephina on the street might prove more challenging, and numerous similar technologies have rapidly acquired a highly pejorative taint, e.g., "glassholes".
- rogerrogerr 3mo agoEver thought about wrapping your AirPods to be skin-colored? I wonder if that would be more inviting for strangers than the stereotypical white color.
- mcculley 3mo agoNo, it never occurred to me. This has prompted a fun discussion with my wife. I suggested I could grow some stem cells into a skin that would match the color of my ears. She suggests that I should not have these ideas.
- dredmorbius 3mo agoYou could also tint your ears white, I suppose ... ;-)