I have a Bluetooth enabled hearing aid, and this guy is spot on with everything. I started off with an analog hearing aid -- when it broke, you took it in and got it fixed. Nowadays, my hearing aid syncs with my iPhone, syncs with my computer, remembers where I've manually set the volume and next time I'm there, re-sets it for me. My hearing is better than it's ever been -- but now when things go wrong, I often don't know. It's very frustrating.

But it's getting better every day. I have hope and optimism.

I recently gave a talk about hearing loss, and one of the things I said was that hearing aids make us practically cyborgs. If a hearing aid can help me with my profound hearing loss, imagine what we could do for hearing people -- make your already fantastic hearing even better? Sounds like a win/win to me.

I'm excited about the future -- but I also keep in mind that wearables pose many problems, just like this author pointed out. If we can solve those, we're well on our way to cyborg-hood...