![]() A February update said the device had gotten a CE thumbs-up, but that happened after Nanoplug made "minor changes" to the design. However, once the campaign closed at $287,921-well over the $85,000 Nanoplug had asked for-the project's creators began mentioning "CE approval" in every infrequent update, meaning that the hearing aid design hadn't yet met the standards and requirements of European regulators. ![]() It all came at an affordable price, no less. At the very least, the product launched with an incredibly detailed, if grammatically challenged, pitch site full of schematics and apparent physical prototypes for a hearing aid that could be both incredibly small and rechargeable. The project didn't particularly stand out when it started asking for money in late October 2014, and the vague promise that Nanoplug was developed "with the leading audiologists, engineers, and industrial designers" didn't help matters. The kickback is coming "as soon as we can" according to Nanoplug, and the apology comes after the product has become both tardy and vastly different from its pitch-if it even exists at all. Further Reading Another Tor router crowdfunding project nixed by KickstarterFile another entry into the " crowdfunded projects that go nowhere" folder: The team behind Nanoplug, a hearing aid that promised to be "an affordable, invisible, instant-fitting, user-programmable, and better quality hearing aid than ever seen before" has finally gone on the record to offer unsatisfied Indiegogo contributors a refund.
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