Look.Lock.Listen.

One look. One voice.

One look. One voice.

Hear where you look. Stay in every conversation.

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The problem, made visible

His hearing aids make everything loud.
He needs one voice.

These are the sound waves reaching our founder's grandfather on a Thursday evening, all amplified equally by his hearing aids. Tap what matters to him, his grandson or the TV, and watch the rest soften to a murmur.

👦🏽
His grandson
telling him about school
Loud
📺
The TV
news at full volume
Loud
🍽️
The kitchen
dishes, kettle, chatter
Loud

Every wave at full strength, all at once. That's what today's hearing aids deliver.

Why it matters

The problem isn't volume.
It's choosing a voice.

For people with sensorineural hearing loss, including age-related presbycusis, the defining struggle is speech-in-noise perception: the cocktail party problem. Devices that amplify everything don't solve it, so people stop wearing them.

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people worldwide live with disabling hearing loss, by the WHO's count

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of people worldwide who need a hearing aid actually use one, says the WHO. The rest go without

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of hearing-aid abandonment is driven by discomfort in noisy places, the #1 reason found in clinical research

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people in our region live with disabling hearing loss, heading to 52M by 2050

How it works

Your eyes choose. Zahear isolates.

You look at them the camera follows your attention You hear only them their voice arrives in under 20 ms
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Look

A 120° wide-angle camera in the corner of the frame follows your attention, whether it lands on a person or the TV, and reads lips when someone speaks. Analysed live on your own phone. Never stored, never uploaded.

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Lock

Your phone decides what has your attention, your grandson or the match on TV. The glasses apply that focus to the sound on the spot, in under 20 milliseconds from sound in to sound out. Speech stays natural, with no echo.

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Listen

That sound arrives clear through open-ear speakers. The room fades to a murmur. Glance at someone new, or back at the TV, and Zahear follows.

Two problems, one pair

Your glasses. Your hearing. One object.

Vision

Fitted with your prescription

Zahear frames take your Rx lenses or plano (zero-power) lenses if your eyes are fine. If you already wear glasses, this isn't an extra device. It's the pair you needed anyway.

Hearing

Attention-steered voice isolation

Look, lock, listen. Sound never leaves the glasses. The app only decides what deserves focus and streams those instructions across. Nothing recorded, nothing uploaded.

Our story
zahear
ظهير · Zaheer · “ally, supporter”

Zahear is named for our founder's grandfather, Zaheer. He owns hearing aids and barely wears them. In any gathering they turn every voice into one wall of sound. So he takes them out. And slowly, he stops joining.

His name means ally in Arabic. The word hear was hiding inside it all along. We're building Zahear so he, and 430 million people like him, never have to leave the conversation.

Shayan Naeem KhanFounder & CEO · Dubai, UAE

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