Tinder hits on amplification market with new earworn arousal device

Hot and ready for the US market today, TinderTouch^TM is a BTE hearing amplification device designed to work within emerging internet-of-things (IOT) networks. It will take advantage of the current legal direct-to-consumer vacuum before its commercial strategy peaks in the coming over-the-counter (OTC) revolution.

TinderTouch^TM is being manufactured for Tinder by the Korean PSAP start-up,
F-ACME. Its designers say they are leaning heavily on a software design that links the hearing aid to functions of its dating app technology, incorporating an “arousal” function that will feed the user in-situation stimuli from a menu of personalised romantic and erotic emoji-triggered soundbytes (Flufferfodder^TM).

In addition, connectivity on an “Inter-Tinder” basis between users within a radius of 50 metres to each other’s apparatus will be enhanced by the device’s “subtly flashing red light”, a feature the designers have described as analagous to the “available” light on taxis. This “heatbeacon” can also take advantage of sensors in the TinderTouch^TM unit itself, which are sensitive to temperature and heartbeat rises, as well as somatic responses during arousal. Their detection will increase the velocity of the heatbeacon flashes.

Tinder is currently working with psychologists and neurologists at the Calorinska Institute in Sweden on ways to employ these sensors to trigger auditory stimuli that will help lower stress for users during first encounters with new friends and partners.

“This can also be for the new intimate situation between about-to-couple couples a means of indicating that they are not actually aroused or interested in the person they have agreed to date, a very useful tool for avoiding bad-faith behaviour,” said Tinder’s Director of Technology, Helmut Reinhardt.

“In fact, we see the social features of this device as primary, and the amplification purpose as a key secondary tool for dealing with the noisy surroundings 87% of Tinder users choose for thier first encounters, such as bars and restaurants. Only 2% choose to meet in very quiet locations, such as libraries or lingerie stores.” Rheinhardt added.

Source: Rutters