A careful ear device developers ended his Indiegogo campaign after the goal of raising funds to help surpass the first production cycle.
Ear Clear , founded by a biomedical engineer at Stanford University trained Lily Truong and Dr. Vandana Jain, a surgeon, developed to soften his ear cleaning tool tip and remove earwax. It will use $ 78,006 raised on Indiegogo to pay the cost of the tools, plastic and electronic components and assemblies. The term production begins in September and November, it expects to complete the installation of the production, according to its website Indiegogo campaign. The funding is for the development of a device for deep cleansing wash wax called TEC are used.
Compare their device developers cleaner Sonicare wide but instead of teeth. It was designed to doctors and nurses clean of excess ear wax can cause serious complications, including hearing problems and ear infections and block the view of the doctors in the ear canal. A graduate of the Stanford accelerator StartX want to remove the wax easier and less expensive.
"The health of the ear is an industry that has always lacked innovation - the people were so harmful cleaning ears (ie with cotton swabs, pencils and forks) and we want to change that," Truong said at the company's website.
The founders are the developing countries as an area of opportunity for the device. Before he began, in the production, it is clear ear Varni, India expects, where he became a golf health surveillance going through participation of the Health Foundation Fellows and Community Development Center.
Earlier this year, Medtronic, in collaboration with the launch of mobile health ClickMedix , Icarus design and local clinics, a program launched to the diagnosis and treatment of ear infections and hearing loss in improving India.
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