Recent content by BadNeighbors

I wonder if we can still get in on the ground floor, either as individuals or as a group. It would be an interesting silver lining to all our suffering if we could reap the rewards of investing in this device early on. Could we form an LLC or another type of legal entity, buy shares within that...

I still believe that since the University of Michigan owns the patent for this device, their Innovation Partnership might be leading efforts to bring it to market. However, I worry that, like many university departments, the University of Michigan’s Innovation Partnership is severely...

With proper funding and attention, I am confident we could be much further along in finding something to alleviate the agony of this constant ringing. Despite the fact that many important, wealthy, or famous individuals also suffer from tinnitus, like Tim Walz, William Shatner, and numerous...

Is there any way we can get both parties to at least mention tinnitus during this election? Should we hire a lobbyist? Organize a special interest group? :D Tim Walz has tinnitus and Vance has to know people who have it. How do we get them to fight about who wants to help us more? How do we get...

Who is benefitting from the device not being released? Big Audiology doesn't want Auricle to succeed because they'll have too many customers. The US government likes paying over a billion in disability checks to veterans because no politician can think of any pork spending they'd rather spend...

It would be cool if something so simple could help alleviate our symptoms. I hope each of these treatments gets us a few decibels lower each time. None of these treatments have to be perfect; they all need to make a dent until our ears eventually return to something normal. In the links you...

I don't think it is going to be grifter copy-cats that do anything to improve our situation, but if Dr. Shore's device can actually alleviate our issue on some meaningful level, I think there will be a lot of other smart people who will try to improve upon her ideas. If her device works, I'd...

I'm not sure I see the relationship between this ALS drug and our hopes for Auricle to move quickly. The ALS drug had bad data and the FDA responded by saying, "your data is bad, it doesn't support your conclusions, and we won't be approving this garbage." This ALS drug sounds like Lenire, not...

Unfortunately, "nearly" can mean anything depending on the context. I'd imagine nearly ready in the medical device context is a couple of years away, even though we all want it to mean a couple of months. A product I'm working is "nearly ready" to be launched to the public. We promised...

Even if this only undid the noise for 2 hours at a time, it'd be great to have a few hours of quiet each day.

As a former academic, I don't see any overtly negative issues with Dr. Shore's switch of University of Michigan to University of California, Irvine. If anything, it shows me Dr. Shore is a big deal in her field. UC Irvine is not an easy place to find a position. Not only is it an R1 university...

This quote appears to be Musk marketing more than him telling the real story. Neuralink was rejected for human trials by the FDA in 2022 and only got the ability to do human trials on a limited number of people in 2023. This is much longer than 4 weeks and, sadly, different than commercial...

This Scientific American article is from July and clearly states, "Shore now wants to move the new method quickly through the approval process and then onto the market." I feel the two biggest issues here are: 1) none of us know what it takes to move something like this from academic prototype...

As already mentioned, the doom and gloom is a bit odd. Science moves slow and I don't think any of us actually understand the process of getting a device to market. The problem with the division of labor in society is that we superficially understand what everyone else does and think their job...

I'm hoping that things normalize for you.