SEE HEAR

These new glasses could be a game-changer for the hard of hearing

- JUSTIN CONNOLLY Technology Editor

TECHNOLOGY can get a bad rap these days - all you hear are horror stories about AI and just how awful people can be on social media.

But obviously technology can be used for good things, too. It's just we tend to overlook just how much of an impact it's had on our lives on that side of the scale.

A few weeks ago we highlighted Apple's accessibility efforts, particularly in relation to its work on assisting those with vision problems.

This week we look at another side to that accessibility work - this time from a company called EssilorLuxottica. You may never have heard of them but they are the parent company behind famous brands like Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Persol, among others.

But while we are talking eyewear here, we're not talking about helping the vision impaired in any other way than with their regular prescription lenses.

EssilorLuxottica has already teamed up with Meta to make the Ray-Ban smart specs, but its new work focuses on hearing - meet the Nuance Audio hearing glasses.