{"622280":{"#nid":"622280","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Frugal Science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Saad Bhamla noticed one of his students having trouble with his hearing aid, he asked the student about it and discovered the high cost of the sputtering device and found that hearing aids aren\u0026rsquo;t covered by insurance, yet they\u0026nbsp;are necessary for a good quality of life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo\u0026nbsp;Bhamla decided he would create an affordable hearing aid that anyone can use. He and his team are now working on an ambitious ultra low-cost hearing aid, that would potentially cost less than a dollar.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the whole story and listen to the podcast from Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s College of Engineering \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/frugal-science-age-innovation\u0022\u003Eright here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Petit Institute researcher Saad Bhamla creates medical equipment for pennies on the dollar"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPetit Institute researcher Saad Bhamla creates medical equipment for pennies on the dollar\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Petit Institute researcher Saad Bhamla creates medical equipment for pennies on the dollar"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2019-06-06 12:48:17","changed_gmt":"2019-06-06 12:49:48","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"605779":{"id":"605779","type":"image","title":"Saad Bhamla","body":null,"created":"1525353459","gmt_created":"2018-05-03 13:17:39","changed":"1525353459","gmt_changed":"2018-05-03 13:17:39","alt":"","file":{"fid":"231010","name":"bhamla300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bhamla300.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bhamla300.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66827,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bhamla300.jpg?itok=junVHChI"}}},"media_ids":["605779"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181392","name":"frugal science"},{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"},{"id":"181467","name":"hearing aids"},{"id":"4460","name":"Medical Devices"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}