Daymond John talks to CNNMoney about how hearing aids changed his life

John opened up about his disability in a recent telephone interview and showed how using modern technology in the form of smart hearing aids and an iPhone was improving his everyday life. “You think of your grandparents wearing hearing aids – not me,” John, 43 years old, told CNNMoney. “But I’m talking to you through my hearing aids … and you’d never really know I’m wearing something.” He says the smart settings app that memorizes his preferences in different places makes a huge difference.

With his advanced hearing aids called Halo 2 (Starkey Hearing Technologies) that work with iOS devices, John is also able to stream calls and listen to music and audio directly through the earpieces. It was at an event organized by the Starkey Hearing Foundation several years ago that John realized he had a real hearing problem.

“I’d often think people were mumbling or something wasn’t on that loud,” he said. “But at the event, they invited everyone to try on a hearing device, and it was like night and day. I was suffering from tinnitus in one ear and something else was going on in the other.”

According to John, listening to loud music in his early years was probably the main cause of his hearing loss. “I’d also been on music tours since I was 14 years old, so I was always too close to the speaker,” he added.

Source: CNNMoney