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Alanna Kaivalya, 33, calls herself "the bionic woman." 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.
"It's incredible," says Kaivalya, who's been hearing impaired her whole life. In May, she got a pair of Starkey's Halo hearing aids, which are made to be controlled through an iPhone app. 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.
