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Today, Altina emerged from stealth.
A new kind of hearing eyewear, made for conversation.
AI-powered hearing enhancement inside finely crafted frames.
Designed in collaboration with the British eyewear brand Cubitts.
Pre-production devices are now in active testing. Join the waitlist to be first: altina.co/?utm_source=x&utm_…
As high-performance AI silicon becomes more widely available, the next breakthrough in hearing enhancement will come from building products people actually want to wear.
Our founder @btal on the evolution of AI-powered hearing enhancement and what comes next.
Altina retweeted
Smart glasses won’t become everyday products just because the technology gets better.
They need to compete with regular glasses on their own terms: style, comfort, and fit.
That’s central to what we’re building at @Altina.
Thanks @uctodaynews for the conversation.
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Altina retweeted
Nobody wants surveillance on their face.
Tal Bar-Or (@btal), Founder @Altina:
"The big tech approach to smart glasses: cameras, data collection, it makes people uncomfortable. With what we're doing, there's none of that."
After two years of building quietly, I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on: a new kind of hearing eyewear, made for conversation.
At @altina, we’re designing eyeglasses with AI-powered hearing enhancement to help people stay engaged, even in noisy environments.
We’re collaborating with the British eyewear brand Cubitts, one of London’s most respected eyewear makers.
Altina retweeted
"Fashion-first hearing eyewear." - @btal
Two AI chips. One on each side.
Une 10ms latency.
@Altina's glasses do what hearing aids don't: "They separate the speech from the noise. We just amplify the speech."
After two years of building quietly, I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on: a new kind of hearing eyewear, made for conversation.
At @altina, we’re designing eyeglasses with AI-powered hearing enhancement to help people stay engaged, even in noisy environments.
We’re collaborating with the British eyewear brand Cubitts, one of London’s most respected eyewear makers.
Altina retweeted
80% of people with hearing loss don't wear hearing aids.
Even when you hand them a $7,000 pair.
"It's stigma. It's comfort. People still are not going to wear it."
@btal left Amazon's smart glasses team to fix that with @Altina.
The answer isn't a better hearing aid. It's deleting the hearing aid entirely.
After two years of building quietly, I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on: a new kind of hearing eyewear, made for conversation.
At @altina, we’re designing eyeglasses with AI-powered hearing enhancement to help people stay engaged, even in noisy environments.
We’re collaborating with the British eyewear brand Cubitts, one of London’s most respected eyewear makers.
Altina retweeted
Appreciate @OptometryToday covering @Altina.
In collaboration with Cubitts, we’re building hearing eyewear like traditional eyewear. The goal is for Altina to fit naturally into the existing optical ecosystem.
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From our founder:
After two years of building quietly, I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on: a new kind of hearing eyewear, made for conversation.
At @altina, we’re designing eyeglasses with AI-powered hearing enhancement to help people stay engaged, even in noisy environments.
We’re collaborating with the British eyewear brand Cubitts, one of London’s most respected eyewear makers.