Comment on These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids

hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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