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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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[–] 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.