CES Highlights 2024 Part 1 Eye Disease Simulator, Telehealth Tech, Speech Support, Hearing Aids
This episode highlights innovations from the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that support vision, hearing, and speech comprehension improvement for older adults, as well as overall simplified digital communications for avoidance of social isolation and telehealth.
Recorded on January 18, 2024, this show included the following guests in the order they presented:
Taylor Speegle, Co-Founder of VisionAid – an eye disease simulator that balances out the vision solution space by creating empathy among professionals (i.e., doctors, low vision clinics, care facilities) and encouraging patient compliance with macular degeneration through the use of mixed reality (i.e., leveraging VR and related technologies). It can also be used in research and design for spaces, either public or private. One of five winners of a Eureka Park Accessibility Award.
Costin Tuculescu, CEO of ONSCREEN – a HIPAA-compliant interface that turns older adult TVs into a telehealth and social communications device by pushing text messages, reminders, photos, videos and more to the TV. Featuring an AI companion called “Joy” who engages with users who may be isolated and lonely, with personalized greetings and reminders to exercise, and pushing information into medical records, and a great example of the convergence of many functions into one system. Winner, AgeTech After Dark Pitch Competition from the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP.
Sara A. Smolley, Co-Founder and Vice President of Partnerships for Voiceitt – an AI interface that allows for speech recognition via mainstream apps for non-standard speech patterns (i.e., Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy, some aging conditions, etc.), which in turn allows users to fulfill basic wants and needs. Based on personal experience with loved ones with communications challenges, Voiceitt learns a person’s way of speaking, and helps them to communicate in real time with others. Exhibitor in the Agetech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion.
Amy Li, CEO and Founder of Concha Labs – a highly personalized, six patent holding, hearing experience solution that factors in the multitude of parameters to improve the functionality and customization of hearing AIDS. Only 20% of those with hearing loss (1.5 billion people worldwide) actually use a solution, in part because prior products have not allowed for this type of personalization. Concha Labs first product will be launched soon, an OTC hearing aid priced at about one-third the cost of traditional hearing aids. One of five winners of a Eureka Park Accessibility Award.
All great innovations from caring companies!
Hosted by: Debbie Howard, Linda Sherman, Steve Ewell, Carol Chiang, Michael Phillips
About this Category
Our seven CES 2024 Highlights shows feature leaders from innovative agetech and/or accessibility companies who either exhibited and/or pitched at CES 2024 through the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion, the AgeTech After Dark Pitch Competition (also from AARP), the Eureka Park Accessibility Award Winners group of five, or the CTA Foundation Pitch competition.
Listen to all of our CES Highlights shows on the Rethinking Aging Club podcast!
Music: Solemnity written and performed by Richard Sherman
