Tinnitus, the sound of ringing in one's year, impacts close to 50M people where 20M people report debilitating tinnitus according to the American Tinnitus Association (ATA).
According to The British Journal of Medicine 57% of people are likely to develop tinnitus as a result of their job.
That said, the condition is more common that one would think, NeoSensory created a wearable which uses haptic feedback (vibrations) to help to reduce tinnitus.
The company is trying to use touch as way to retrain the brain in terms of how it processes auditory information. NeoSensory is trying to create the first hearing assistive technology that enables people to listen with their skin.
By training the brain to sense sound through the skin - NeoSensory has been able to “reduce tinnitus symptoms in 87% of users in as little as three weeks.”
Read more about the product, and a review of it through Rolling Stone: