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Why are hearing aids advertised as "discrete" when Bluetooth earpieces are very noticeable ?

If there is a social stigma around wearing a hearing aid would it be better to make them look like Bluetooth earpieces?

Public Comments

1. Yea But No But YEA !!!!!!!
2. Hearing aid is a lack of hearing and you want to hide the fact you are deaf (embarasement) Bluetooth is Hey look at me im young and hip WHOO WHOO im daddy whorebucks (showing off)
3. because some deaf people and parents of deaf people don't want others to know of the "handicapped" so they want to hide it best as possible. plus blue tooth ear pieces are just stupid and makes the person look like an ass who is constantly on the phone and is taken away from the world he is currently in.
4. People who wear them are generally very uncomfortable with wearing them, and would like them to be as discrete as possible. However, there are companies producing models very similar to bluetooth. In fact, they have a model called the Epoq by Oticon that is bluetooth. You can answer the phone with them, make calls with them and listen to music wirelessly on them. Pretty sick.
5. I think you have a good point I don't wear one myself but they make some people look like a cyborg, which is cool because we can then all get paranoid about robot people taking over.
6. one is to HEAR what people r saying and hear birds singing cars beeping... while the other one is to speak to others on a ear piece not on the cell phone
7. That in English means 'not obvious'
8. Ive got a tiny silver hearing aid and I don't give a damn who notices it. I'd feel a real plonker walking around with a bluetooth stuck to my ear though.