Weinstein estimates solar ear products prevent as many as 200 million batteries from being discarded each year.
Solar powered hearing aids.
Low cost and free second hand hearing aids are available for hearing impaired people in developing countries.
The solar ear unit includes a digital rechargeable hearing aid a solar battery charger and four rechargeable hearing aid batteries.
Deaftronics provides solar powered hearing aids along with four rechargeable batteries for 200.
These hearing aids have an overall lifespan of up to twelve years.
Solar ear developed the first rechargeable hearing aid battery which lasts for 2 3 years and can be used in 80 of hearing aids on the market today.
Social impact deaftronics manufactured the first solar powered hearing aid unit called solar ear.
The batteries sell for 1 last for three years and can be used in almost any hearing aid.
The batteries can also be used in 80 of hearing aids currently present in the market.
All solar ear hearing aids come with 2 years warranty low cost and affordable hearing aids with the lowest price possible and the only hearing aid that comes with batteries and recharger with no additional cost.
In 2019 solar ear sold 50 000 hearing aids 100 000 solar chargers and 250 000 batteries.
Solar ear creator howard weinstein designed the digital hearing aid to rely on two rechargeable aa batteries.
The availability and affordability of hearing aids and batteries impede solutions to hearing loss.
Users simply place the batteries inside a palm sized solar charger and after about.
By 2015 deaftronics had already sold more than 10 000 hearing aids to people in botswana zimbabwe kenya south africa and angola.