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An idea that helps the hearing impaired while reducing e-waste pollution. Over two years, we repurposed old phones — reassembling their components into new devices that improve hearing capacity.
Millions of people live with untreated hearing loss because hearing devices remain expensive and out of reach. At the same time, mountains of discarded phones pile up as electronic waste — full of working microphones, speakers, processors and batteries.
The components needed to help people hear were already in our pockets. Then in our drawers. Then in landfills.
“Trade yesterday's phones for tomorrow's hearing.
Not a concept. A working product — designed, prototyped and tested over two years of engineering.
The Hearing Trade blueprints are open source — released so that any organization or manufacturer in the world can build, adapt and continue the work. One prototype becomes a platform; one market becomes the world.
The Hearing Trade turns electronic waste into inclusion — proof that product thinking, sustainability and accessibility can share the same circuit board.
Less waste. More hearing. Open to the world.