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These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids (www.wired.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28079065

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Apparently due to Indian regulations. I guess it cannot legally call itself a "hearing aid" without going through some kind of certification process.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah the article mentioned that at some point. It still seems a bit petty to geofence it, instead of just calling it something else

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

I can actually forgive this one. A lot of medical devices regulations require that if you function as something or make it available, then you need to pass the certification for offering it.
You can't just relabel a device as something else if you clearly intend for it to be used as a medical device. Shady Bob's emergency electrical heart massager isn't going to fly.

In the US, hearing aids required a prescription until 2022. What I can glean from translated sites is that India still has that requirement.