{"375081":{"#nid":"375081","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Wearable Tech for People With Disabilities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp id=\u0022yui_3_16_0_1_1423515833377_724\u0022\u003EAlanna Kaivalya, 33, calls herself \u0022the bionic woman.\u0022 The PhD student and yoga teacher trainer in New York can answer a phone with her watch, mute a noisy subway ride through an app on her phone and stream music directly into her ears -- no cord necessary.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp id=\u0022yui_3_16_0_1_1423515833377_740\u0022\u003E\u0022It\u0027s incredible,\u0022 says Kaivalya, who\u0027s been hearing impaired her whole life. In May, she got a pair of Starkey\u0027s Halo hearing aids, which are made to be controlled through an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca id=\u0022yui_3_16_0_1_1423515833377_741\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-news\/health-wellness\/articles\/2014\/07\/18\/what-to-look-for-in-a-fitness-app\u0022 p=\u00228\u0022\u003EiPhone app\u003C\/a\u003E. Soon after, she added a Pebble smartwatch to her wearable repertoire when she became a beta tester for a new technology that allows users to control their hearing aids through their watches.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-09 17:04:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:57","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"alpfa","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/wearable-tech-people-disabilities-172058563.html","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}