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CiliaBuilder: A Hair Prosthetic For Your Ears
For millennia, treatment of hearing loss relied on simple amplification (e.g., ear trumpets or speakers). Digital hearing aids introduced some signal manipulation for clarity but are primarily another type of amplification device.
Early Hearing Aids Created with Ear Trumpets
History
Current Technology
The cochlear implant was the first technology to address the root issue of hearing loss by bypassing the mechanical reception altogether and directly stimulating the nerves, but CiliaBuilder will take the treatment of hearing loss a step further by repairing the damaged mechanical reception.
Cochlear Implant
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