16-yr-Old NRI Student Invents Low-Cost Hearing Aid
A 16-year-old Indian-American boy has created a low-cost hearing aid costing USD 60 to help those who cannot afford expensive devices. Technology that could help hearing-impaired individuals have come along with over the years with items such as phones for hearing impaired and other items.
Mukund Venkatakrishnan of Kentuckys Louisville city worked on the device for two years and presented it at the Jefferson County Public Schools Idea Fest and recently won first place the Kentucky State Science and Engineering Fair.
The device, which can be used with even the cheapest set of headphones, is built to first test hearing by playing several different sounds at seven different frequencies through headphones. It then programs itself to be a hearing aid, amplifying volume based on the test r...