By 2050, 2.5 billion people will have hearing loss, partly driven by constant earbuds and wearables. Loop makes fashionable ear plugs for hearing protection, betting that cool design can shift how people think about protecting their ears.
Nearly 2.5 billion people by 2050 are expected to experience hearing loss, with over 700 million requiring rehabilitation. Some project that hearing aids are about to become as common as reading glasses. Today we have AirPods in our ears. How many hours a day?
Like 8.
Like, that was not true 10 years ago, right?
I wear a hearing aid. They all suck.
The technologies that we use are influencing a greater number of people who experience hearing loss. Your Apple Watch will tell you when you're in a SoulCycle class. This is damaging your ears.
Are there any interesting companies in the hearing aid space that you've seen?
Have you heard of Loop? The— it's just these kind of like nifty looking earplugs. Not only are solving the problem, but they also shift in this direction of I look cool, I feel cool, I want to wear this thing.
