Posted on 12/11/2017 10:54:10 AM PST by Swordmaker
A pacemaker is different from a hearing aid. If the hearing aid fails, I will not die. I will just be back where I am without one.
And if it is SO Essential to life, why is it not covered by basic health insurance?
I guess we will have to agree to disagree on this.
The 800 series chips are great and all, but I’ve moved everyone in the house to phones with the 625 chip. No perceptible difference in speed and all our phones last twice as long on a battery charge.
No more battery anxiety.
Science fiction of our youth has become reality.
“If I told you fifty years ago that man could have a device he would carry around in his pocket that would give him access to all of the information in the world, yet he would use it to watch cat videos and argue with people he did not know, would you believe me?”
Cat videos, yes. Argue with strangers, no.
Larry Niven describes a world in the far future where men fly between the stars and if he is very rich can afford a computer that fits in a pocket with 1 megabyte of memory.
If a hearing aid fails you can indeed be physically harmed, you think a device melting or catching fire in your ear or literally rupturing your ear drum is not harm?.. Like it or not true “medical devices” are held to a much higher standard... ALL medical devices.
You want to red neck yourself your own device when you age, feel free, sure you can rig something up cheap... you want to start selling it to others, you’ll realize your little device doesn’t remotely meet the standards required for public sale.
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