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uHear -- test your hearing with an iPhone

Posted on June 04, 2009 at 11:39 PM

Categories: code, mobile, iphone

Here's a little movie I made of an iPhone app called uHear I developed for Unitron. This is also a bit of an experiment because I've uploaded the movie to Amazon S3 and you're watching it from AWS.

Anyway, the video is short, and shows you four parts of the app:

  1. The standard hearing sensitivity test, which finds out how quiet you can hear at various pitches in each ear,
  2. the speech & noise test, which tests if you might have trouble hearing over noise like in a restaurant,
  3. lots of hearing-related info, and finally,
  4. a live audiologist lookup based on your current location, powered by google maps API.

You'll want to turn your speakers up or the first bit might seem a bit pointless.

Making this app was pretty cool, my client was excellent, I worked closely with their audiologist in charge of this project and really pushed the boundaries of playing back audio on the iPhone in a very precise way. We also implemented some really cool UE/graphics designed by Tom Auger of Zeitguys in Toronto.

Incidentally, I'm available to do more iPhone consulting on a part-time basis :-) Bring in Simon & Woodside when you need crack software development (but not software development for crack).

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