Eyeglasses that help the hearing-impaired too

A group of students at Virginia Tech are working on a pair of glasses dubbed NuWave, which help hearing through bone conduction, tech site Mashable reported.

"The glasses combine the traditional use of the hearing aid with bone conduction, which is also used in Google Glass. The position of the glasses near the user's temporal bone lets sounds travel to the ear through vibrations," Mashable said.

NuWave is a creation of undergraduate students Chelsey Pon, Lane Stith, Nellie Talbot and Peter Yoo, who had taken part in the Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center's "Getting Wireless" Student Design Challenge earlier this year.

Its creators built the device based on a fictional teen who lost his hearing after a car crash.

They combined a non-prescription glasses with a light indicator, portable battery, microphone, bone conduction transducers and an induction charging pad.

NuWave connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth and a special app, and helps with hearing as well as alerts the user to a phone call or an appointment. - ELR, GMA News