I heard Apple is working on hearing aid software for AirPods. This is excellent news all around. My hearing is pretty decent (save for very mild tinnitus caused by being an "invincible" idiot when I was younger and listening to music at max volume), but I'd love to be able to use vaguely AirPod shaped, reasonably priced hearing aids which would, for example, boost speech and attenuate noise in noisy environments, especially if they are able to do so directionally, for the source in front of me.