A view of the ambient noise is what this device hopes to give people with less than a perfect sense of hearing. The fashionable bit of it is the wristband, but it also comes with a “micro device.” The way these two bits work together is: sound goes in one, comes out the other. But as the micro device, which sits on your belt, hears sound, it interprets it and translates it to a corresponding pictogram and in some cases, a vibration for warning.ù

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