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These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids (www.wired.com)
submitted 1 day ago by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fun fact I learned waaay too late in my nursing career: if a patient has lost or damaged their amplifying hearing aid, you can put a stethoscope in their ears and talk into the bell.

None of you will ever use this but I share it with everyone now because it's really neat and I wish I knew it 10 years ago.

[-] mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

My brother told me this. He said the disposable stethoscopes during COVID height were great for this.

And I actually might as I intend to go EMS/EMS adjacent.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago

Why is a feature like that geofenced in the first place?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 18 points 1 day ago

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

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day 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

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day 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.

[-] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

You can still use the hearing test feature by browsing this link on your Apple device:

x-apple-health://HearingAppPlugin.healthplugin/HearingTest

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