This episode highlights innovations from the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that support vision, hearing, and speech comprehension for older adults, as well as digital communications for telehealth and avoidance of social isolation.

Recorded January 18, 2024, the following guests presented in this order:

Taylor Speegle, Co-Founder of VisionAid - an eye disease simulator adding to vision solutions by creating empathy among doctors, low vision clinics, and care facilities while encouraging patient compliance with macular degeneration through the use of mixed reality (i.e., leveraging VR and related technologies). One of five winners of a Eureka Park Accessibility Award.

Costin Tuculescu, CEO of ONSCREEN - a HIPAA-compliant interface that turns TVs into a telehealth and social communications device for older adults by pushing text messages, reminders, photos, and videos to the TV. An AI companion called “Joy” engages with users with personalized greetings and reminders, and pushes information to medical records - a great example of function convergence. Winner, AgeTech After Dark Pitch Competition from the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP.

Sara A. Smolley, Co-Founder and Vice President of Partnerships for Voiceitt - an AI interface that facilitates speech recognition via mainstream apps for non-standard speech patterns (i.e., Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy, some aging conditions, etc.), enabling users to fulfill basic wants and needs. Voiceitt learns a person's way of speaking, and helps them communicate in real time. Exhibitor in the AgeTech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion.

Amy Li, CEO and Founder of Concha Labs – a highly personalized, six patent holding, hearing solution factoring in multiple parameters to improve functionality. Only 20% of the 1.5 billion people worldwide with hearing loss use a solution, in part because prior products have not allowed for personalization. Concha Labs' first product is an OTC hearing aid priced at about one-third the cost of traditional hearing aids. One of five winners of a Eureka Park Accessibility Award.

All great innovations from caring companies!

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Hosted by: Debbie Howard, Linda Sherman, Steve Ewell, Carol Chiang, Michael Phillips

About this Category
Our seven CES 2024 Highlights shows feature leaders from innovative agetech and/or accessibility companies who either exhibited and/or pitched at CES 2024 through the Agetech Collaborative from AARP Pavilion, the Agetech After Dark Pitch Competition (also from AARP), the Eureka Park Accessibility Award Winners group of five, or the CTA Foundation Pitch competition.

Listen to all of our CES Highlights shows on the Rethinking Aging Club podcast!

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Music: Solemnity written and performed by Richard Sherman